Henry Waldron

Henry Waldron

Henry Waldron (born October 11, 1819 in Albany , New York , †  September 13, 1880 in Hillsdale , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Henry Waldron attended the Albany Academy and then until 1836 the Rutgers College in New Brunswick ( New Jersey ). In 1837 he moved to Michigan where he became a railroad engineer. Since 1839 he lived in the town of Hillsdale. Between 1846 and 1848 Waldron was director of the Michigan Southern Railroad . He then became the first president of the Detroit, Hillsdale & Southwestern Railroad . He was also President of the Second National Bank of Hillsdale from its inception until 1876.

Politically, Waldron was initially a member of the Whig Party . In 1843 he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives . In 1848 he was the elector of his party in the presidential election . It was then that Whig candidate Zachary Taylor was elected president . After the dissolution of his party in the mid-1850s, Waldron joined the newly formed Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1854 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded David A. Noble on March 4, 1855 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . From 1855 to 1857, Waldron chaired the Treasury Department's Expenditure Control Committee. In 1860 he renounced another candidacy for Congress.

In 1870 Waldron returned to the political scene. That year he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the First District of Michigan to succeed Fernando C. Beaman . After two re-elections, he was able to spend three more legislative periods there until March 3, 1877. From 1873 he represented the second district of his home state as the successor to William L. Stoughton . From 1871 to 1873, Henry Waldron chaired the Mining Committee in Congress. In 1876, Waldron finally renounced another candidacy. From 1876 until his death he was President of the First National Bank of Hillsdale . He died in Hillsdale on September 13, 1880.

Web links

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

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