Edward Stevens Henry (February 10, 1836 – October 10, 1921) was an American businessman and politician from Connecticut who served as a

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member of the United States House of Representative for

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from 1895 to 1913. He also served as the 44th Treasurer of Connecticut from 1889 to 1893 and in the Connecticut House of Representatives, the Connecticut Senate and as mayor of

Rockville, Connecticut Rockville is a census-designated place and a village of the town of Vernon in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,474 at the 2010 census. Incorporated as a city in 1889, it has been consolidated with the town of Vernon ...

Early life

Henry was born in the town of

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and moved with his parents at age 13 to Rockville, Connecticut in 1849. He attended the public schools and engaged in the dry-goods business. He was the organizer of the People's Saving Bank in Rockville and Treasurer from 1870 to 1921. He was a farmer and breeder of thoroughbred stock.

Career

He served as a member of the

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in 1883 and of the

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from 1887 to 1888. He served as delegate at large to the Republican National Convention in 1888, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut from 1889 to 1893 and as the 3rd mayor of Rockville from 1894 to 1895. Henry was elected as a

to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1913). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings ( Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912. He resumed his former mercantile pursuits in

where he died on October 10, 1921. He was interred in Grove Hill Cemetery. Edward Stevens Henry gravestone

Legacy

Henry Park in Rockville, Connecticut is located on land donated by Henry and named in his honor.

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