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HENDERSON, David Bremner, a Representative from Iowa; born in Old Deer, Scotland, March 14,
1840; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in
Winnebago County, Ill., in 1846; moved to Fayette County, Iowa, in 1849;
attended the common schools and the Upper Iowa University at Fayette; enlisted
in the Union Army September 15, 1861, as a private in Company C, Twelfth
Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry; was elected and commissioned first
lieutenant of that company and served with it until discharged, owing to the
loss of a leg, February 26, 1863; commissioner of the board of enrollment of
the third district of Iowa from May 1863 to June 1864; entered the Army as
colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served until
the close of the war; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and
commenced practice in Dubuque, Iowa; collector of internal revenue for the
third district of Iowa from November 1865 to June 1869 when he resigned;
assistant United States district attorney for the northern district of Iowa
1869-1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on
Militia (Fifty-first Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902;
died in Dubuque, Iowa, February 25, 1906; interment in Linwood Cemetery.
BibliographyHoing, Willard L. David B. Henderson: Speaker of the House.
Iowa Journal of History 55 (January 1957): 1-34; Schlup,
Leonard. Defender of the Old Guard: David B. Henderson and Republican Politics
in Gilded Age America.
Juliens Journal 22 (January 1997): 22-24.
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