HENRY C. HANSBROUGH
Henry C. Hansbrough, of Devils Lake, was born at Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Ill., January 30, 1848; received a common-school education; removed with his parents to California in 1867; learned the trade of printer in that State; published a daily paper at San José, Cal., 1869–70; was connected with the San Francisco Chronicle until 1879; published a paper at Baraboo, Wis., for two years, and removed to the then Territory of Dakota in 1882, engaging in journalism; became prominent as an advocate of the Republican policy of division and admission; was twice elected mayor of his city; was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1888, and was there chosen national committeeman for North Dakota; received the Republican nomination for Congress at the first State convention, and was elected to the Fifty-First Congress, receiving 26,077 votes, against 12,006 for Daniel W. Marrata, Democrat; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican January 23, 1891, to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce, Republican. He took his seat March 4, 1891, was reëlected in 1897, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
