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  Southard, Henry
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AffiliationDemocratic-Republican   
NameHenry Southard
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Basking Ridge, New Jersey , United States
EmailNone
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Born October 07, 1747
DiedMay 22, 1842 (94 years)
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Jul 22, 2015 06:00pm
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InfoSOUTHARD, Henry, (father of Isaac Southard and Samuel Lewis Southard), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., October 7, 1747; moved with his parents to Basking Ridge, N.J., in 1755; attended the common schools and worked on a farm; served as a private and later as wagon master during the Revolutionary War; engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace 1787-1792; member of the State general assembly 1797-1799 and in 1811; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1811); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Eleventh Congress); elected to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); resumed farming; died in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N.J., May 22, 1842; interment in Basking Ridge Cemetery.


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Son Isaac Southard 1783-1850
Son Samuel L. Southard 1787-1842

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RACES
  10/13/1818 NJ At-Large Won 14.95% (-1.23%)
  11/05/1816 NJ At-Large Won 16.68% (-0.44%)
  10/11/1814 NJ At-Large Won 8.64% (+0.00%)
  01/13/1813 NJ - Central District Lost 22.26% (-5.68%)
  11/08/1808 NJ At-Large Won 9.36% (+0.01%)
  10/15/1806 NJ At-Large Won 12.35% (-0.07%)
  11/07/1804 NJ At-Large Won 16.64% (+0.02%)
  12/14/1803 NJ At-Large Won 16.43% (+0.00%)
  12/24/1800 NJ At-Large Won 10.12% (-0.06%)
  01/11/1797 NJ At-Large Lost 0.80% (-14.95%)
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  02/02/1820 NJ At-Large - Special Election Won 0.00% (-10.11%)
  10/31/1810 NJ At-Large - Special Election Won 0.00% (-10.77%)
  03/09/1808 NJ At-Large - Special Election Won 0.00% (-9.69%)
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