- Henry C. Hansbrough
Infobox Senator
name = Henry Clay Hansbrough
jr/sr=United States Representative
state =North Dakota
term_start = 1889
term_end = 1891
preceded = none
succeeded =Martin N. Johnson
office2 =United States Senator
term_start2 = 1891
term_end2 = 1909
predecessor2 =Gilbert A. Pierce
successor2 =Martin N. Johnson
date of birth=January 30 ,1848
place of birth=Prairie du Rocher,Illinois
dead = dead
date of death=death date and age|1933|11|16|1848|1|30
place of death=Washington, D.C.
residence=
spouse=
profession=Printing
religion=
party=Republican|Henry Clay Hansbrough (
January 30 ,1848 -November 16 ,1933 ) was aUnited States politician who served as the firstUnited States Representative from North Dakota, as well as a Senator fromNorth Dakota .Biography
Henry Clay Hansbrough was born near
Prairie du Rocher, Illinois .Henry Clay , who attended the wedding for his parents Elisha Hansbrough and Sarah Hagan, suggested to them that they name their first son after him, and they did. [ [http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/datebook/bydate/04/0104/013004.jsp Dakota Datebook ] ] Henry attended the common schools and in 1867 moved toSan Jose, California . He learned the art of printing and worked at the trade in San Jose and later atBaraboo, Wisconsin . He moved toDakota Territory and established the "Grand Forks News" in 1881 and the "Inter-Ocean at Devils Lake" in 1883. He was mayor of Devils Lake from 1885 to 1888 and a member of theRepublican National Committee from 1888 to 1896.Upon the admission of North Dakota as a State into the Union, Hansbrough was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress and served from
November 2 ,1889 , untilMarch 3 ,1891 . He did not seek renomination in 1891, having become a candidate for Senator; he was elected to the Senate in 1891 and reelected in 1897 and again in 1903 and served fromMarch 4 ,1891 , toMarch 3 ,1909 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1909. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the Library (Fifty-fourth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Public Lands (Fifty-fifth through Sixtieth Congresses) and the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixtieth Congress). Hansbrough resumed his former business pursuits in Devils Lake and moved toFlorida ,New York , and finally toWashington, D.C. , in 1927, where he died in 1933. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered under an elm tree on theUnited States Capitol Grounds in Washington.References
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