Rep. David B. Henderson

HENDERSON, BISSEL, SHIRAS, VAN DUZEE, HURD, DANIELS, KIESEL, RICHARDS

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David Bremner Henderson, of Dubuque, was born at Old Deer, Scotland, march 14, 1840; was brought to Illinois in 1846 and to Iowa in 1849; was educated in common schools and at the Upper Iowa University; studied law with Bissel & Shiras, of Dubuque, and was admitted in the fall of 1865; was reared on a farm until twenty-one years of age; enlisted in the Union Army in September, 1861, as private in Company C, Twelfth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and was elected and commissioned First Lieutenant of that company, serving with it until discharged, owing to the loss of his leg, March 26, 1863; in May, 1863, was appointed Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment of the third District of Iowa, werving as such until June, 1864, when he re-entered the Army as Colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers; and served therein until the close of his term of service; was Collector of Internal Revenue for the third District of Iowa from November, 1865, until June, 1869, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson; was Assistant united States District Attorney for the Northern Division of the District of Iowa about two years, resigning in 1871; is now a member of the law firm of Henderson, Hurd, Daniels & Kiesel; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving 21,457 votes, against 16,872 votes for Benjamin B. Richards, Democrat, and 3 votes scattering.

-source: Official Congressional Directory, Fifty-First congress, First Session, Third Ed., Corrected to May 10, 1890; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890; Iowa Representatives Third District, page 40

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