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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Iowa / USDavid Bremner HENDERSON
(1840-1906)
HENDERSON, David Bremner,
a Representative from Iowa; born in Old Deer, Scotland, March 14,
1840; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled
in Winnebago County, Ill., in 1846; moved to Fayette County, Iowa,
in 1849; attended the common schools and the Upper Iowa University
at Fayette; enlisted in the Union Army September 15, 1861, as a
private in Company C, Twelfth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry;
was elected and commissioned first lieutenant of that company and
served with it until discharged, owing to the loss of a leg,
February 26, 1863; commissioner of the board of enrollment of the
third district of Iowa from May 1863 to June 1864; entered the Army
as colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry,
and served until the close of the war; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Dubuque, Iowa; collector
of internal revenue for the third district of Iowa from November
1865 to June 1869 when he resigned; assistant United States
district attorney for the northern district of Iowa 1869-1871;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1903); chairman,
Committee on Militia (Fifty-first Congress), Committee on the
Judiciary (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on
Rules (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses); Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902;
died in Dubuque, Iowa, February 25, 1906; interment in Linwood
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Finocchiaro, Charles J., and David W. Rohde, “Speaker David
Henderson and the Partisan Era of the U. S. House,” in David
W. Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins, eds., Party, Process, and
Political Change in Congress, Volume 2. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2007: 259-270.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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