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Thomas Henderson
Acting Governor of New Jersey
In office
March 30, 1793 – June 3, 1793
Preceded byWilliam Paterson
as Governor
Succeeded byRichard Howell
as Governor
Vice President of the New Jersey Legislative Council
In office
1793–1795
GovernorWilliam Paterson
Himself
Richard Howell
Preceded byElisha Lawrence
Succeeded byElisha Lawrence
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1795 – March 4, 1797
Preceded byJames Schureman
Elias Boudinot
Succeeded byJames Henderson Imlay
James Schureman
Thomas Sinnickson
Personal details
Born(1743-08-15)August 15, 1743
Freehold, Province of New Jersey, British America
DiedDecember 15, 1824(1824-12-15) (aged 81)
Freehold Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyFederalist

Thomas Henderson (August 15, 1743 – December 15, 1824) was a United States representative from New Jersey. He served as acting governor of New Jersey in 1793.

Early life

Born in Freehold in the Province of New Jersey, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Princeton College in 1761. He studied medicine and practised in Freneau, New Jersey and Freehold Township, New Jersey. He was a member of the Committee of Safety in 1774 and served as a lieutenant in the New Jersey Line in 1775. He was appointed second major in Col. Charles Stewart's battalion of Minutemen on February 15, 1776, and was a brigade major of the Monmouth County militia, April 19, 1776. He was major of Col. Nathaniel Heard's battalion, June 14, 1776, and later lieutenant colonel and brigadier major at Monmouth.

Politics

Henderson was surrogate of Monmouth County in 1776, and a member of the provincial council in 1777. He was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress, November 17, 1779, but declined to serve on December 25, 1779. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1780 to 1784, and was a master in chancery in 1790. He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) in 1793 and 1794, serving as Vice President of that body, and in 1793 and 1794 he was Acting Governor of New Jersey. Henderson was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1797; he was previously a candidate for Congress in 1789 and 1791. From 1783 to 1799 he was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was one of the commissioners appointed to settle the boundary line between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He was again a member of the State Council in 1812 and 1813.

Death

In 1824, Henderson died in Freehold; interment was in Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan.

References

Political offices
Preceded byWilliam Paterson
Governor 		Acting Governor of New Jersey
March 30, 1793 – June 3, 1793 		Succeeded byRichard Howell
Governor
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byElias Boudinot Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large congressional district
March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797 		Succeeded byJames Schureman
Vice presidents of the New Jersey Legislative Council
New Jersey State Flag
  1. "A New Nation Votes". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  2. "A New Nation Votes". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
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