Robert Pryor Henry

Robert Pryor Henry (born November 24, 1788 in Henry Mills , Scott County , Virginia , †  August 25, 1826 in Hopkinsville , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1826 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Henry was born in Henry Mills in what is now Kentucky in 1788. After elementary school, he studied at Transylvania University in Lexington . After studying law with Henry Clay and being admitted to the bar in 1809, he began to work in this profession in Georgetown . During the British-American War of 1812 , he first served on the staff of his father, General William Henry. In 1813 he took part in Isaac Shelby's successful campaign against the British. He achieved the rank of major. After the war, Robert Henry moved to Hopkinsville, where he worked as a lawyer. In 1819 he became a prosecutor.

Henry was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the 1820s he joined the parliamentary group around the future President Andrew Jackson . In the congressional election of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created twelfth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. After being re-elected in 1824 without opposing candidates, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 25, 1826 . Henry was popular as a good speaker in his constituency. He died surprisingly of a sudden fever. His mandate fell to John Flournoy Henry after a by-election . Despite having the same surname and the same place of birth, there is no evidence of a relationship between the two men.

Web links

• Robert Pryor Henry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Pryor Henry in the database of Find a Grave (English)