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Henry J. Scudder

Full Name: Henry Joel Scudder

Lawyer/Congressman

Centurion, 1857–1886

Proposed by
William E. Curtis
born September 18, 1825
Northport, New York
died February 10, 1886
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected March 7, 1857
Age thirty-one
Member portrait of Henry J. Scudder
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 1, Leaf 37
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Archivist’s Notes

Brother of Hewlett Scudder; son-in-law of John H. Willard

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.

Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports

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