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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Brooks HENDERSON
(1826-1913)
Senate Years of Service:
1862-1863; 1863-1865; 1865-1869Party: Unionist; Unconditional
Unionist; RepublicanHENDERSON, John Brooks, a
Senator from Missouri; born near Danville, Pittsylvania County,
Va., November 16, 1826; moved with his parents to Lincoln County,
Mo.; studied on his own while a farm hand; taught school; admitted
to the bar in 1844 and practiced; member, State house of
representatives 1848-1850, 1856-1858; active in Democratic
politics; commissioned a brigadier general in the State militia in
1861; appointed and subsequently elected to the United States
Senate as a Unionist to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of
Trusten Polk; reelected in 1863 and served from January 17, 1862,
to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman,
Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Thirty-ninth
Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for Governor and Senator;
special United States attorney for prosecution of the Whiskey Ring
at St. Louis in 1875; appointed a commissioner to treat with
hostile tribes of Indians in 1877; moved to Washington, D.C., in
1888; writer; resided in the capital until his death, April 12,
1913; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Mattingly, Arthur H. “Senator John Brooks
Henderson, United States Senator from Missouri.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Kansas State University, 1971; Roske, Ralph J.
“The Seven Martyrs?” American Historical Review
64 (January 1959): 323-30.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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