David Newton Henderson (April 16, 1921 – January 13, 2004) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
North Carolina
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.
Born on a farm near
Hubert, North Carolina
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, Henderson attended Wallace High School,
Wallace, North Carolina
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The Pender County portion of Wallace is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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, graduating in 1938. He earned an LL.B. degree from
Davidson College
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in June 1942 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the
United States Army Air Forces
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. He served in India, China and Okinawa and achieved the rank of major upon his discharge in 1946. He graduated from
University of North Carolina Law School
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in 1949.
He became a lawyer in private practice and served as assistant general counsel to the Committee on Education and Labor,
United States House of Representatives
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, judge from 1958 to 1960.
In the early 1980s he also ran a lawyer-lobbyist company Cook and Henderson with Republican Marlow Cook. Their major client was the Tobacco Institute.
Henderson was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977). He served as chair of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (Ninety-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976, a seat won by a staff from his office,
Charles Orville Whitley
Charles Orville Whitley (January 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1977 and 1986.
Born in Siler City, North Carolina, Whitley attended Siler City High School, graduating in 1943. He ser ...
.
Henderson died on January 13, 2004, in
Wilmington, North Carolina
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With a population of 115,451 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the ...
, and was interred at Rockfish Cemetery,
Wallace, North Carolina
Wallace is a town in Duplin and Pender counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 3,880 at the 2010 census.
The Pender County portion of Wallace is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
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