Henry Winfield Watson (June 24, 1856 – August 27, 1933) was a

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member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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. Henry W. Watson was born in

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. He was educated in private schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and commenced the practice of his profession in Philadelphia. He served as president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Railway Company. He was the director of several banks and of the Langhorne Water Company. Watson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his death in

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. Interment in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery,

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* 1856 births 1933 deaths Burials at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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