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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyThomas HENDERSON
(1743-1824)
HENDERSON, Thomas, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Freehold, Monmouth County,
N.J., August 15, 1743; attended the public schools and was
graduated from Princeton College in 1761; studied medicine;
practiced first in Freneau and afterwards in Freehold, N.J., about
1765; member of the committee of safety in 1774; served as a
lieutenant in the New Jersey Militia in 1775; appointed second
major in Col. Charles Stewart’s Battalion of Minutemen
February 15, 1776; brigade major, Monmouth County Militia, April
19, 1776; major of Col. Nathaniel Heard’s battalion June 14,
1776, and later lieutenant colonel and brigadier major at Monmouth;
surrogate of Monmouth County in 1776; member of the provincial
council in 1777; elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress,
November 17, 1779, but declined December 25, 1779; served in the
State general assembly 1780-1784; master in chancery in 1790;
member of the State council in 1793 and 1794, serving as vice
president of that body; Acting Governor of New Jersey in 1794;
elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1795-March
3, 1797); judge of the court of common pleas 1783-1799; one of the
commissioners appointed to settle the boundary line between New
Jersey and Pennsylvania; again a member of the State council in
1812 and 1813; died in Freehold, N.J., December 15, 1824; interment
in Old Tennent Cemetery, Tennent, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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