Henry William Connor (1793–1866) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Amelia Courthouse, Prince George County, Virginia, August 5, 1793; was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1812; served as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Joseph Graham with rank of Major in the expedition against the Creek Indians in 1814; settled in Falls Town, North Carolina; engaged in planting; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-fourth Congresses, and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-second through Twenty-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840; member of the State senate 1848–1850; died at Beatties Ford, North Carolina, January 6, 1866; interment in Rehobeth Methodist Church Cemetery, near Sherrills Ford, North Carolina
See also
- Seventeenth United States Congress
- Eighteenth United States Congress
- Nineteenth United States Congress
- Twentieth United States Congress
- Twenty-first United States Congress
- Twenty-second United States Congress
- Twenty-third United States Congress
- Twenty-fourth United States Congress
- Twenty-fifth United States Congress
- Twenty-sixth United States Congress
- Entry in US Congress Biographical database
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Preceded byWilliam Davidson | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 11th congressional district 1821–1841 |
Succeeded byGreene W. Caldwell |
Chairs of the United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service | ||
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Post Office and Post Roads (1808–1947) |
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(Reform in the) Civil Service* (1893–1947) | ||
Post Office and Civil Service (1947–1995) | ||
Note | Name shortened from Reform in the Civil Service to Civil Service in 1925. |
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