Henry William Connor

Henry William Connor (born August 5, 1793 in Amelia Court House , Prince George County , Virginia , †  January 6, 1866 in Beatties Ford , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1841 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Connor studied at South Carolina College in Columbia until 1812 . In 1814 he took part in a campaign against the Creek tribe as a staff officer with the rank of major . He later settled in Falls Town (North Carolina), where he worked as a planter . Politically, Connor was a member of the Democratic Republican Party at the time. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

In the congressional elections of 1820 , Connor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded William Davidson on March 4, 1821 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1841 . From 1831 to 1839 he was chairman of the Postal Committee. In the second half of the 1820s, there was heated argument in Congress between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson. Between 1829 and 1837, the politics of Jackson, who has since become president, was the subject of discussion. It was mainly about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

In 1840, Henry Connor renounced another congressional candidacy. Between 1848 and 1850 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate . Then he withdrew from politics. He survived the Civil War and died in Beatties Ford on January 6, 1866.

Web links

• Henry William Connor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Henry William Connor in the database of Find a Grave (English)