Pat Henry

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people of the same name, see Patrick Henry .

Patrick "Pat" Henry (born February 15, 1861 in Helena , Arkansas , † December 28, 1933 in Vicksburg , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the third constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Pat Henry was the nephew of Patrick Henry , who served in Congress for the sixth constituency of Mississippi from 1897 to 1901 . The younger Patrick came to Vicksburg with his parents in 1865, where he attended public schools. He then studied at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and at the US Military Academy . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1882, Henry began to practice in his new profession in Vicksburg. Between 1884 and 1888 he was the legal representative of this city.

Politically, Henry was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1888 to 1890, and served as a district attorney in the state's ninth legal district from 1890 to 1900. From 1900 to 1901 he was a judge in this district. In 1896, Henry was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1900 congressional election, Henry was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third district of Mississippi , where he succeeded Thomas C. Catchings on March 4, 1901 . Since he was no longer nominated by his party for a further term in 1902, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1903. After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Pat Henry retired from politics. He worked again as a lawyer in Vicksburg, where he died in December 1933.

Web links

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