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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Henry, William
Henry, William, a Representative from Vermont; born in Charlestown, N.H., March 22, 1788; attended the common schools; engaged in business in Chester, Vt., and later engaged in manufacturing in Vermont, New York, and Jaffery, N.H.; moved to Bellows Falls, Vt., in 1831; engaged in banking; member of the State house of representatives in 1834 and 1835; served in the State senate in 1836; a director of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad Co.; delegate to the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1839; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Harrison and Tyler in 1840; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed banking; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Lincoln and Hamlin in 1860; died in Bellows Falls, Vt., April 16, 1861; interment in South Street Cemetery, Chester, Vt.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Henry, William," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1301 Original Sources, accessed October 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9FWVXQIAI2JBZ5Y.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Henry, William." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1301, Original Sources. 30 Oct. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9FWVXQIAI2JBZ5Y.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Henry, William' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1301. Original Sources, retrieved 30 October 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9FWVXQIAI2JBZ5Y.
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