Henry Page (June 28, 1841 – January 7, 1913) was an American politician.

Biography

Page was born in

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, and received preparatory instruction at the school of Anthony Bolivar in

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. He attended the

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where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Princess Anne. Page's early political career included service as a member of the constitutional convention in 1867, and as State's attorney for

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, from 1870 to 1884. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until September 3, 1892, when he resigned to become a judge of the

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. He was appointed chief judge of the first judicial district of Maryland in August 1892, and was elected to the position in November 1893 for a term of fifteen years. He died in Princess Anne in 1913, and is interred in Manokin Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

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1841 births 1913 deaths Judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals People from Princess Anne, Maryland Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges {{Maryland-state-judge-stub