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Revision as of 01:27, 30 May 2016
Robert Pryor Henry (November 24, 1788 – August 25, 1826) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Henrys Mills, Kentucky (then a part of Virginia), Henry pursued classical studies and was graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Georgetown, Kentucky. He served as prosecuting attorney in 1819. He served in the War of 1812. He moved to Hopkinsville in 1817.
Henry was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823, until his death in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 25, 1826. He was interred in Pioneer Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "Robert Pryor Henry (id: H000517)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Allen, William B. (1872). A History of Kentucky: Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and Other Leading Men, of All Occupations and Pursuits. Bradley & Gilbert. pp. 269–270. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- Perrin, William Henry (1884). Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky : historical and biographical. F.A. Battey Publishing Company. p. 98.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1788 births
- 1826 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
- Kentucky Jacksonians
- Kentucky Democratic-Republicans
- American military personnel of the War of 1812
- Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century American politicians