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Powers, Henry H

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1835, in Morristown, Vt. He was a member of the house of representatives of Vermont in 1858; and was prosecuting attorney of Lamoille county in 1861-62.

He was a member of the state senate in 1872-73; and was speaker of the house of representatives in 1874. He was judge of the supreme court of Vermont from 1874 to 1890; and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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