Henry Champion Deming (23 May 1815 – 8 October 1872) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-CN 1) from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1867, succeeding Dwight Loomis and preceding Richard D. Hubbard.
Biography[]
Henry Champion Deming was born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1815, and he became a lawyer in New York City in 1839. He became an editor of The New World, and he moved to Hartford in 1847 and served in the State House from 1849 to 1850 and from 1859 to 1860, as Mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858 and from 1860 to 1862, as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War (serving under Benjamin F. Butler during his 1862 expedition to New Orleans and as acting Mayor of New Orleans from 1862 to 1863), and in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1867. He wrote a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, and he died in 1872.