Henry Page

Henry Page (born June 28, 1841 in Princess Anne , Somerset County , Maryland , †  January 7, 1913 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . In 1891 and 1892 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Page went to West Chester ( Pennsylvania ) to school. He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1864, he began to work in Princess Anne in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1867 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Maryland Constitution. Between 1870 and 1884 he was a prosecutor in Somerset County.

In the congressional election of 1890 Page was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Charles Hopper Gibson on March 4, 1891 . He only exercised this mandate until September 3, 1892. That day he resigned after serving as a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals . For the next 15 years he served as a judge in the Maryland First Judicial District. Henry Page died in Princess Anne on January 7, 1913.

Web links

• Henry Page in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Page in the database of Find a Grave (English)