Henry William Seymour was a politician from the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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Seymour was born in Brockport, New York

Brockport, New York

Brockport is a village located in the Town of Sweden in Monroe County, New York, USA. The population was 8,103 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Hiel Brockway, an early settler....

 and attended the public schools, Brockport Collegiate Institute, and Canandaigua Academy

Canandaigua Academy

Canandaigua Academy is the name of a high school located in Canandaigua, New York which is part of the Canandaigua City School District. The school was named a national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education in 1996. Donald Raw, Jr. is the Superintendent of Schools...

. He graduated from Williams College

Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

 of Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown, Massachusetts

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 in 1855. He studied law in Albany, New York

Albany, New York

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 taking lectures at Albany Law School

Albany Law School

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 and was admitted to the bar in May 1856, but never practiced.

Seymour engaged in mercantile pursuits in Brockport until 1872 when he moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie is a city in and the county seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the north-eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the Canadian border, separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River...

 where he engaged in the manufacture of reapers and subsequently in the manufacture of lumber and in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Cheboygan District, 1880–1882 and a member of the Michigan Senate

Michigan Senate

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 1882–1884 (31st District) and 1886–1888 (30th District).

In a special election on February 14, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Seth C. Moffatt

Seth C. Moffatt

Seth Crittenden Moffatt was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Moffatt was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, attended the common schools, and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1863. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Traverse...

, Seymour was elected as a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 from Michigan's 11th congressional district

Michigan's 11th congressional district

Michigan's 11th congressional district is a United States Congressional District located just northwest of Detroit, consisting of northwestern Wayne and southwestern Oakland counties...

 to the 50th Congress

50th United States Congress

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, serving from February 14, 1888, to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1888, losing to fellow Republican Samuel M. Stephenson

Samuel M. Stephenson

Samuel Merritt Stephenson was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Stephenson was born in Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada and moved with his parents to Maine, and later, in 1846, to Delta County, Michigan. He engaged in lumbering and moved to Menominee, Michigan in 1858...

 in the primaries.

Henry W. Seymour died at the age of seventy-one, while on a visit, in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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  He is interred at Lakeview Cemetery of Brockport.

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