Henry Marchmore Shaw

Henry Marchmore Shaw (1859)

Henry Marchmore Shaw (born November 20, 1819 in Newport , Rhode Island , † November 1, 1864 in New Bern , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 and again from 1857 to 1859 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After primary school, Henry Shaw studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia until 1838 . After becoming a doctor, he began practicing his new profession in Indiantown, North Carolina. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1852 , Shaw was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Thomas Lanier Clingman on March 4, 1853 . Since he was not confirmed in 1854, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855 . This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . At that time it was mainly about the question of slavery and the rights of the individual states.

In the elections of 1856 Shaw was re-elected to Congress in the first district of North Carolina, where he replaced Robert Treat Paine on March 4, 1857 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. After he was not confirmed in his mandate in 1858, he could only spend one more term in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1859. There the contrast between the members of the North and the South had become even more acute.

During the Civil War that began in 1861, Henry Shaw was a colonel in the Confederation Army . In 1862 he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released again through a prisoner exchange. Then he continued to fight for the Confederate States . On November 1, 1864, he was fatally wounded in a battle near New Bern.

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SURNAME	Shaw, Henry Marchmore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newport , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1864
Place of death	near New Bern , North Carolina