Henry Poehler, (August 22, 1833 – July 18, 1912) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. Born in Hiddesen, Lippe-Detmold, Germany (now a part of Detmold), he attended his father’s academy and immigrated to the United States in April 1848, settling in Burlington, Iowa, where he attended the public schools. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1853 and later on to Henderson, Sibley County, Minnesota, in 1854. He engaged in general merchandising and as a grain merchant and was appointed postmaster at Henderson, Minnesota on February 25, 1856, serving until April 12, 1861. He served in the state house of representatives in 1857, 1858, and 1865, and served as county commissioner of Sibley County and chairman of the board from January 1865 to January 1868. He was member of the state senate in 1872 and 1873 and again in 1876 and 1877. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress and an unsuccessful candidate for Minnesota State Treasurer. He served as mayor of Henderson for several terms, later on moving to Minneapolis in 1889 and engaged in the general merchandise and grain business. He moved again to Los Angeles, California, in 1895. He died in Henderson, Minnesota, while on a visit to an interment in Major Joseph R. Brown Cemetery.
Granville Henderson Oury was a nineteenth-century American politician, lawyer, judge, soldier, and miner.
William Brickly Stokes was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. He also served as colonel of the 5th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War.
James Michael Cavanaugh was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota and a delegate from the Territory of Montana. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, July 4, 1823 and received an academic education. He engaged in newspaper work, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began practice in Davenport, Iowa. He then moved to Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minnesota, in 1854 and continued the practice of law; upon the admission of Minnesota as a State into the Union, in 1858, was elected as a Democrat to the thirty-fifth congress and served from May 11, 1858, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1858 to the thirty-sixth congress; moved to Colorado in 1861 and resumed the practice of law; also engaged in mining; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; moved to Montana in 1866; as a Democrat, he was elected a delegate to the fortieth and forty-first congresses ; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870; engaged in the practice of law in New York City; returned to Colorado in 1879 and settled in Leadville, where he died October 30, 1879. He is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New York City.
John Thomas Averill was a United States Army officer in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. congressional representative from Minnesota.
Mark Hill Dunnell was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota from 1871 to 1883 and from 1889 to 1891.
Kittel Halvorson was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
Jacob Miller Campbell was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also served as an officer and, later on, served more roles in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Turner Wait was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Luther Franklin McKinney was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Thomas Frank Marshall was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.
John Rice Eden was an American lawyer and politician who a total of five terms served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois during three non-consecutive stints between 1863 and 1887.
Thomas Jefferson Henderson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.
Henry William Harrington was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1863 to 1865.
Adoniram Judson Warner was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1879 and 1887.
Ansel Tracy Walling was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1875 to 1877.
Hezekiah Sanford Bundy was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes was an American newspaperman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1875 to 1879.
Stephen Alonzo Cobb was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
John Forbes Benjamin was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
John William Palmer was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.