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Henderson, David Bremner

solborn dier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 14, 1840, in Scotland. He entered the union army as a private in 1861 and served with distinction, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1869-70 he was assistant United States district attorney; was chairman of the Iowa delegation in the republican national convention of 1880; and was secretary of the republican congressional committee in 1882. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-eighth congress; was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. He has twice presided over the republican state conventions of Iowa; and has three times served as chairman of his delegation from Iowa to the national republican conventions.