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John Steele Henderson (January 6, 1846 – October 9, 1916) was a Representative for North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives.

Biography

Born near Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina in 1846, the son of Archibald and Barbara Bynum Henderson, John S. Henderson attended a private school in Melville, N.C. He entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in January 1862 and left in November 1864 to join the Confederate Army as a private in Company B, Tenth Regiment, North Carolina State Troops. He served throughout the Civil War, and graduated in Law from the University of North Carolina in 1865 without reentering.

Henderson obtained a County Court license in June 1866 and a Superior Court license in June 1867, and was appointed in June 1866 as Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina, in which capacity he served until September 1868, when he resigned. Henderson was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875, became a member of the State House of Representatives in 1876, and served in the State Senate in 1878. He was elected by the General Assembly in 1881 as one of the three Commissioners to codify the statute laws of the State. In June 1884 Henderson was elected Presiding Justice of the Inferior Court of Rowan County. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1895). He was appointed Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).

He resumed the practice of law in Salisbury, N.C., and was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in 1900 and 1902. In 1900 he became a member of the Board of Aldermen.

John S. Henderson died in Salisbury, North Carolina on October 9, 1916, and was interred in Chestnut Hill Cemetery.

References

1. Prominent People of North Carolina: Brief Biographies of Leading People for Ready Reference Purposes. Asheville, NC: Evening News Pub. Co. 1906. p. 40.
2. U.S. Government Printing Office, ed. (2005). "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005" (PDF).
3. "John Steele Henderson Biography". U.S. Congress. Retrieved Jun 27, 2022.

External links

• John S. Henderson at Find a Grave
• Details of Henderson and his Family
• Henderson on Famous Americans
• John S. Henderson - Civil Rights Leader

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

v t e Chairs of the United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Post Office and Post Roads (1808–1947)	Rhea Ingham Livermore F. Johnson J. Johnson Ingham McKean R. Johnson Connor McKay Briggs Hopkins Goggin Potter Olds Mace English Colfax Alley Farnsworth Packer Clark Waddell Money Bingham Money Blount Bingham J. Henderson Loud Overstreet Weeks Moon Steenerson Griest Sanders Mead Romjue Burch O'Brien
(Reform in the) Civil Service* (1893–1947)	Andrew De Forest Brosius Gillett Godwin Hamill Godwin Lehlbach Jeffers Ramspeck Randolph
Post Office and Civil Service (1947–1995)	Rees Murray Rees Murray Dulski D. Henderson Nix Hanley Ford Clay
Note	Name shortened from Reform in the Civil Service to Civil Service in 1925.

• 1846 births
• 1916 deaths
• North Carolina lawyers
• University of North Carolina School of Law alumni
• Democratic Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
• Democratic Party North Carolina state senators
• North Carolina state court judges
• Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
• People from Salisbury, North Carolina
• North Carolina city council members
• 19th-century American judges
• 19th-century American lawyers
• 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
• 20th-century members of the North Carolina General Assembly