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David Bremner Henderson |
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| Ripe experience and sound
judgment are no less essential than intellectual strength and
force of character in the man who would be a leader of men. It
is a combination of all these qualities that gives David B.
Henderson, of Iowa, his power and influence in the National
House of Representatives. Mr. Henderson was born at Old Deer,
Scotland, March 14, 1840. He was brought to the United States
when six years of age, settling first in Illinois, but
removing in 1849 to Iowa, where he was educated in the public
schools and at the Upper Iowa University. He was reared on a
farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when the Civil war
breaking out, he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Iowa
regiment, in September, 1861. He was soon after commissioned
first lieutenant, and served with his regiment until the loss
of a leg caused him to be discharged, February 16, 1863. In
May of that year he was appointed commissioner of the Board of
Enrollment of the Third district of Iowa, serving as such
until June, 1864, when he re-entered the army as colonel of
the Forty-sixth Iowa regiment, and served until the close of
hostilities. He was collector of internal revenue for the
Third district of Iowa from November, 1865, until June, 1869.
In the mean time he had been admitted to the bar, and in 1869
he became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee &
Henderson. He was Assistant United States District Attorney
for about two years, resigning in 1871, and is now a member of
the law firm of Henderson, Daniels & Kiesel, of Dubuque. He
was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and
has since served continuously in that body, where he is
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~source:
Famous American Men and Women, A Complete Portrait Gallery of
Celebrated People Whose Names are Prominent in the Annals of the
Times, edited by Stanley Waterloo & John W. Kanson, Jr., 1895; bio.
pg 266, photo pg 267
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Transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall for Dubuque County IAGenWeb, May 2010
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