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Deming, Henry Champion

lawyer, soldier, congressman, author, was born in 1815 in Middle Haddam, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1849 and 1850, and also from 1859 to 1861, serving as speaker during the latter year; and in 1851 was a member of the state senate. He subsequently presided over the city of Hartford as mayor for six years. In 1861, as colonel of the twelfth regiment of Connecticut volunteers, he went to New Orleans and participated in the capture of that city. In 1862 he was appointed mayor of New Orleans. He was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-eighth and thirtyninth congresses. He published a Life of General Grant. He died Oct. 9, 1872, in Hartford, Conn.