John Steele Henderson (January 6, 1846 – October 9, 1916) was a Representative for

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in the

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Biography

Born near

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in 1846, the son of Archibald and Barbara Bynum Henderson, John S. Henderson attended a private school in Melville, N.C. He entered the

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in January 1862 and left in November 1864 to join the

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as a private in Company B, Tenth Regiment, North Carolina State Troops. He served throughout the

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, and graduated in

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from the University of North Carolina in 1865 without reentering. Henderson obtained a County Court license in June 1866 and a Superior Court license in June 1867, and was appointed in June 1866 as

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for

, in which capacity he served until September 1868, when he resigned. Henderson was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875, became a member of the State House of Representatives in 1876, and served in the State Senate in 1878. He was elected by the General Assembly in 1881 as one of the three Commissioners to codify the statute laws of the State. In June 1884 Henderson was elected Presiding Justice of the Inferior Court of Rowan County. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1895). He was appointed Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses). He resumed the practice of law in Salisbury, N.C., and was elected to the

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in 1900 and 1902. In 1900 he became a member of the Board of Aldermen. John S. Henderson died in

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on October 9, 1916, and was interred in Chestnut Hill Cemetery.

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Details of Henderson and his FamilyHenderson on ''Famous Americans''
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