Henry Winfield Watson

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Henry Winfield Watson

Henry Winfield Watson (June 24, 1856 – August 27, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Henry W. Watson was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in private schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and commenced the practice of his profession in Philadelphia. He served as president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Railway Company. He was the director of several banks and of the Langhorne Water Company.

Watson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Interment in the Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district

1915–1923
Succeeded by
Thomas S. Butler
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district

1923–1933
Succeeded by
Oliver W. Frey


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