
Henry Shaw (1788-17 October 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 7) from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1821, succeeding John W. Hulbert and preceding Henry W. Dwight.
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Henry Shaw was born in Putney, Vermont in 1788, and he practiced law in Albany, New York and Lanesboro, Massachusetts. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821, in the state house from 1824 to 1830 and 1833, and in the state senate in 1835. Shaw moved to New York City in 1848 and served in the State Assembly in 1853 before moving to Newburgh in 1854, and he died in 1857.