Henry Z. Osborne

Henry Z. Osborne

Henry Zenas Osborne (born October 4, 1848 in New Lebanon , Columbia County , New York , †  February 8, 1923 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1923 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Osborne attended public schools in his home country. During the Civil War , despite his youth, he served in an infantry unit from New York that was under the Union Army . After the war, Osborne worked in the newspaper industry. He has worked as a printer, reporter, publisher and newspaper editor in various cities. His last stop was Los Angeles. Between 1878 and 1884 he was head of the tax authorities ( Receiver of Public Moneys ) in Bodie ; from 1890 to 1894 he headed the customs service in the port of Los Angeles. From 1898 to 1906, Osborne served as the US Marshal for the southern part of California. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1914 and 1915, Osborne served as the Los Angeles City Councilor for Public Works.

In the 1916 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of California , where he succeeded Henry S. Benedict on March 4, 1917 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on February 8, 1923 . During this time, the First World War and the ratification of the 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution took place . At the time of his death, Osborne had already been re-elected for the next legislative term. The mandate then fell to his party colleague John D. Fredericks after a by-election .

Web links

• Henry Z. Osborne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Z. Osborne in the database of Find a Grave (English)