(Encyclopedia) Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830–1913, American financier and real-estate developer, b. Hopewell, near Canandaigua, N.Y. As a youth he struck out for himself in Ohio. After trying the…
(Encyclopedia) Foote, Henry Stuart, 1804–80, U.S. senator (1847–52) and governor of Mississippi (1852–54), b. Fauquier co., Va. An able criminal lawyer, he practiced in several different states. In…
(Encyclopedia) Herndon, William Henry, 1818–91, friend, law partner, and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, b. Greensburg, Ky. In 1844 he became the junior member of the Springfield, Ill., law firm of…
(Encyclopedia) Summers, Lawrence Henry, 1954–, U.S. economist, government official, and educator, b. New Haven, Conn. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, he…
(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824–1912, U.S. army officer and historian, b. Wallingford, Conn., grad. Yale, 1845, and afterward studied at Yale Law School. Carrington ably reorganized the…
Senate Years of Service: 1876-1882; 1885-1897; 1897-1901; 1901-1909Party: Republican; Republican; Silver Republican; DemocratTELLER, Henry Moore, a Senator from Colorado; born in Granger,…
Senate Years of Service: 1912-1941Party: DemocratASHURST, Henry Fountain, a Senator from Arizona; born in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., September 13, 1874; moved with his parents to…
Senate Years of Service: 1891-1909Party: RepublicanHANSBROUGH, Henry Clay, a Representative and a Senator from North Dakota; born near Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Ill., January 30,…
Senate Years of Service: 1929-1935Party: RepublicanHATFIELD, Henry Drury, a Senator from West Virginia; born in Logan County, W.Va., September 15, 1875; attended the local schools and Franklin…
Senate Years of Service: 1875-1893Party: RepublicanDAWES, Henry Laurens, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Cummington, Mass., October 30, 1816; attended the common…
