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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

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U.S. House of Representatives
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
Post Office and Post Roads
(1808–1947)
Seal of the United States House of Representatives
(Reform in the) Civil Service*
(1893–1947)
Post Office and Civil Service
(1947–1995)
NoteName shortened from Reform in the Civil Service to Civil Service in 1925.


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