Senator Henry Wharton View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 5/31/1882

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 10 (1864) - 11 (1866)

House: 15 (1874)

Home County: Cedar

Henry Wharton

Cedar County

Born in Wheeling county, Virginia, November 9, 1799. He removed thence to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1832, where he remained until 1853 when he became a resident of Iowa and lived in the State twenty-two years during which time he was three times elected a member of the Legislature. In 1875 he came to California and has since made Gridley his home. Ordained a the age of twenty-five he was a circuit rider in the interest of Methodism.

Senate District 24