Henry Clay McCormick (June 30, 1844 – May 26, 1902) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Henry C. McCormick was born in

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. He attended the common schools and Dickinson Seminary in

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced in Williamsport. McCormick was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Fifty-first Congress. He was a delegate to the

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. He was elected president of the Williamsport & North Branch Railroad in 1892. He served as attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899. He resumed the practice of law and died in Williamsport in 1902. His body is interred at Wildwood Cemetery.

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