Henry Wilbur Palmer

Henry Wilbur Palmer

Henry Wilbur Palmer (born July 10, 1839 in Clifford , Susquehanna County , Pennsylvania , †  February 15, 1913 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1911 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Henry Palmer attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and then the Fort Edward Institute in New York State . After a subsequent law degree at the National Law School in Poughkeepsie and his admission to the bar in 1860, he began to work in this profession. During the Civil War he worked in the wages office of the Union Forces in occupied New Orleans in 1862 and 1863 . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In 1872 and 1873 he took part as a delegate to a constitutional convention in his home state; from 1879 to 1883 he held the office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

In the 1900 congressional elections , Palmer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Democrat Stanley Woodward Davenport on March 4, 1901 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1907 . Since 1903 he represented there as the successor to William Connell the eleventh district of his state. In 1905 he was one of the MPs charged with conducting impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Charles Swayne . In the elections of 1908 , Henry Palmer was re-elected to Congress in the Eleventh District of Pennsylvania, where he could serve another term as the successor to John Thomas Lenahan between March 4, 1909 and March 3, 1911.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Henry Palmer practiced law again. He died on February 15, 1913 in Wilkes-Barre.

Web links

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

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Stanley Woodward Davenport	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (12th constituency) March 4, 1901 - March 3, 1903	George Robert Patterson
William Connell	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (11th constituency) March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907	John Thomas Lenahan
John Thomas Lenahan	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (11th constituency) March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897	Charles Calvin Bowman