HENDERSON
HENDERSON
S. Rollins for representative in the 37th congress
the same year, and was a delegate to the state
convention of 1861 that determined the state to
remain in the union. On the outbreak of the
civil war he organized a brigade of state troops
and was commissioned brigadier-general of
militia. He was appointed in 1862, by Lieut. -
Gov. Willard P. Hall, U.S. senator in place of
Trusten Polk, expelled, and he was elected by the
legislature to fill out the term. In 1863 he was
elected for the full term expiring March 4, 1869.
In the senate he was chairman of the committee
on Indian affairs ; organized the Indian peace
commission in 1867 ; was the author of the thir-
teenth amendment to the constitution, and was
among the original agitators of the suffrage
amendment embodied in the organic law as the
fifteenth amendment. He was one of the seven
Republican senators who voted for acquittal in
the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. He
was married in 1868 to Mary, daughter of Judge
Elisha Foote of New York. He resumed his law
practice in St. Louis, Mo., in 1869, at the close of
his senatorial term. He was nominated for gov-
ernor of Missouri in 1872, but was defeated by
Silas Woodson. He received the Republican nom-
ination for U.S. senator in 1793, but was defeated
in the election by Louis Bogy. In 1875 he was ap-
pointed by President Grant to assist the U.S.
district attorney in the prosecution of the
-"■ Whisky ring," violators of the revenue laws,
but was removed by the President in December
of tliat year. He was presiding officer of the
Republican national convention of 1882. He
subsequently resided in Washington, D.C., where
he was elected by congress a regent of the
Smithsonian Institution in January, 1892, and
again in 1898. He was elected a member of the
Geological and National Geographic societies, and
was a member of the Pan-American conference
of 1889-90. He is tlie author of many articles on
economic subjects, especially finance, contributed
to the magazines. The University of Missouri
conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.
in 1882.
HENDERSON, John Steele, representative, was born near Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 6, 1846 ; son of Archibald and Mary Steele (Ferrand) Hender- son ; grandson of Archibald and Sarah (Alexan- der) Henderson and of Stephen Lee and Margaret (Steele) Ferrand, and great-grandson of Judge Richard (1735-1785) and Elizabeth (Keeling) Hen- derson and of the Hon. John Steele (q. v.) His maternal great--grandmother, Elizabeth Max- well Steele, gave all her savings to General Greene on his retreat, thus enabling him to feed his tix)ops and cross the Yadkin before its swollen waters impeded the pursuit of Cornwallis. John attended the University of North Carolina from
January, 1862, to November, 1864, when he en-
listed in the Confederate army and served until
the close of the war. In January, 1866, he en-
tered Judge Pearson's law school at Richmond
Hill, N.C., and was admitted to the bar in June,
1867. He was register of deeds for Rowan
county, 1866-68 ; was elected a delegate to the
proposed constitutional convention in 1871 ; was
a member of the state constitutional convention
in 1875 ; elected a member of the lower house of
the state legislature in 1876 and of the upper
house in 1878 ; and in 1881 was elected by the
general assembly one of the three commissioners
to codify the statute laws of the state. He was
elected presiding justice of the inferior court of
Rowan county in June, 1884, and was a Dem-
ocratic representative in the 49th, 50th, 51st, 52d
and 53d congresses, 1885-95. He was chairman
of the committee on the post-office and post-roads
of the 53d and 53d congresses. He received from
Trinity college, N.C., the honorary degree of
LL.D. in 1890.
HENDERSON, Joseph, representative, was born in Shippensburg, Cumberland countj , Pa. , Aug. 2, 1791 ; son of Matthew and Margaret Hen- derson. His father was a surveyor. In 1802 the family removed to Centre county, Pa., and in 1812-13 Joseph attended lectures at Jefferson Medical college, from which institution he re- ceived his M.D. degree. He also studied medicine under an older brother, Dr. Jolm Henderson, of Huntingdon county, Pa. In 1813 he was ap- pointed first lieutenant in the 22d regiment, Penn- sylvania volunteers, and in the spring of that year marched his troops to Sacket Harbor, where they joined the main army on the frontier. In the fall of 1813 he was promoted captain and in 1814 was brevetted major, with the command of a regiment. He engaged in the battles of Chip- pewa, Lundy's Lane and the siege of Fort Erie. After the close of the war he settled at Brown's Mills, wliere he practised medicine until 1850. He was a representative in the 23d and 24tli con- gresses, 1833-37. In 1850 he removed to Lewiston, Pa., where he practised his profession until his death. He held high rank as a physician and was a trustee of the state lunatic asylum. He was twice married : first to Jane E. , daughter of Judge Samuel and Elizabeth (Plunket) Mac- lay ; and secondly in 1852, to Margaret Isenberg. By his second wife he had three sons, James L., Joseph and William B. He died at Lewiston, Pa., from injuries received fifty years before at Fort Niagara, Dec. 25, 1863.
HENDERSON, Leonard, jurist, was born in Granville county, N.C., Oct. 6, 1772; son of Judge Richard and Elizabetli (Keeling) Hender- son. He was admitted to the bar in 1794 and was clerk of the district court of Hillsborough until
