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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Kentucky WATTERSON, Henry(1840—1921)WATTERSON, Henry, (son of Harvey Magee Watterson and nephew of Stanley Matthews), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1840; completed preparatory studies under private tutors; attended the Academy of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa.; engaged in newspaper work as correspondent and editorial writer; his first newspaper employment was on the Washington States, a Democratic paper, 1858-1861; became editor of the Republican Banner in Nashville, Tenn., in 1861; during the Civil War entered the Confederate service; aide to Gen. N.B. Forrest; was on the staff of Gen. Leonidas Polk; chief of scouts in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army; edited the Chattanooga Rebel in 1862 and 1863; resumed newspaper pursuits in Nashville after the war; moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1867 and purchased the Louisville Journal, consolidated it with the Courier, and served as editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal for fifty years; temporary chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward Y. Parsons and served from August 12, 1876, to March 3, 1877; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892; died in Jacksonville, Fla., December 22, 1921; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. Asbury, Eslie. “Henry Watterson.” Queen City Heritage 44 (Fall 1986): 23-31. Logan, Lena C. “Henry Watterson, Border Nationalist, 1840-1877.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1942. ———. “Henry Watterson and the Liberal Convention of 1872.” Indiana Magazine of History 40 (December 1944): 319-40. Marcosson, Isaac Frederick. ”Marse Henry”, A Biography of Henry Watterson . New York: Dodd Mead, 1951. Pringle, H. F. “Kentucky Bourbon: Marse Henry Watterson.” In Highlights in the History of the American Press , edited by Edwin Hopkins Ford, pp. 211-28. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1954. Wall, Joseph Frazier. Henry Watterson, Reconstructed Rebel . New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. ———. “Henry Watterson and the ‘Ten Thousand Kentuckians.’” Filson Club Historical Quarterly 24 (October 1950): 335-45. Wallace, Tom. “Henry Watterson, A Man of Salient Characteristics.” Filson Club History Quarterly 23 (October 1949): 257-66. Watterson, Henry. Abraham Lincoln . [Louisville, Ky.: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1899]. ———. The compromises of life; and other lectures and addresses, including some observations on certain downward tendencies of modern society . New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970]. ———. The Editorials of Henry Watterson . Compiled with an introduction and notes, by Arthur Krock New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. ———. George Dennison Prentice . Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1870. ———. History of the Manhattan Club; A narrative of the activities of half a century . New York: [The De Vinne Press], 1915. ———. History of the Spanish-American War; embracing a complete review of our relations with Spain . Illustrated with numerous original engravings and colored plates, accurately portraying the scenes described. New York: Akron, O., [etc], The Werner Company, [1898]. ———. ”Marse Henry”: An Autobiography . 2 vols. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Reprint, New York: Beekman Publishers, 1974. ———, ed. Oddities in southern life and character . With illustrations by W. L. Sheppard and F. S. Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; [etc., etc.], 1900. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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