John Henry (politician, 1800)

John Henry (born November 1, 1800 in Stanford , Lincoln County , Kentucky , †  April 28, 1882 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . In 1847 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Henry attended public schools in his home country. In the early 1830s he took part in the Black Hawk War as a soldier in the Illinois State Militia . Politically, he became a member of the Whig Party . Between 1832 and 1840 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives . In 1838 he was instrumental in building the first railroad in Illinois. From 1840 to 1847 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the resignation of the House of Representatives Edward Dickinson Baker , Henry was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election for the seventh seat of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on February 5, 1847. Since he was no longer running in the regular congressional elections of 1846 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1847 . This was shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War .

From 1850 to 1855, John Henry ran the Jacksonville State Mental Hospital . Between August 1862 and April 1863 he worked during the civil war with the Quartermaster Department in Jackson ( Tennessee together). He died on April 28, 1882 in St. Louis.

Web links

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