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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyHenry WATTERSON
(1840-1921)
WATTERSON, Henry, (son of
Harvey Magee Watterson and nephew of Stanley Matthews), a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Washington, D.C., February
16, 1840; completed preparatory studies under private tutors;
attended the Academy of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia, Pa.; engaged in newspaper work as correspondent and
editorial writer; his first newspaper employment was on the
Washington States, a Democratic paper, 1858-1861; became editor of
the Republican Banner in Nashville, Tenn., in 1861; during the
Civil War entered the Confederate service; aide to Gen. N.B.
Forrest; was on the staff of Gen. Leonidas Polk; chief of scouts in
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army; edited the Chattanooga Rebel
in 1862 and 1863; resumed newspaper pursuits in Nashville after the
war; moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1867 and purchased the Louisville
Journal, consolidated it with the Courier, and served as editor of
the Louisville Courier-Journal for fifty years; temporary chairman
of the Democratic National Convention in 1876; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Edward Y. Parsons and served from August 12, 1876, to
March 3, 1877; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876;
delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1880, 1884,
1888, and 1892; died in Jacksonville, Fla., December 22, 1921;
interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
Bibliography
Margolies, Daniel S. Henry Watterson and the New South: The
Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006; Watterson, Henry.
“Marse Henry”: An Autobiography. 2 vols. New
York: George H. Doran, 1919. Reprint, New York: Beekman Publishers,
1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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