[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 129 (Thursday, September 26, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1381]
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                 HONORING SENATOR JOHN BROOKS HENDERSON

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 26, 2013

  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I proudly pause to recognize the 
late Senator John Brooks Henderson, a native of the Sixth Congressional 
District town of Louisiana and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment, 
on this 100th anniversary of his death.
   Sen. Henderson was a quintessential pioneer man. Having moved with 
his family from Virginia to Missouri, he studied law while working as a 
farm hand and gained admittance to the Missouri Bar at the age of 18. 
He served two terms in the Missouri State House, and was commissioned 
as a brigadier general of the Missouri State Militia at the onset of 
the Civil War before being appointed a United States Senator in 1862. 
There, as a slave-state senator, he co-authored the Thirteenth 
Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the United States. Sen. 
Henderson subsequently made an impact by joining seven other Republican 
Senators in voting against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 
supporting women's suffrage, and by prosecuting tax cheats in the 
Whiskey Ring in St. Louis in 1875.
   Mr. Speaker, I proudly ask you to join me in recognizing Senator 
John Brooks Henderson for his many contributions to the State of 
Missouri and the United States that ultimately changed the course of 
history for this nation.

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