Charles L. Henry | |
Office1: | Member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 7th district |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1895 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1897 |
Predecessor1: | William D. Bynum |
Successor1: | Jesse Overstreet |
Office2: | Member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 8th district |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1897 |
Term End2: | March 4, 1899 |
Predecessor2: | George W. Faris |
Successor2: | George W. Cromer |
Office3: | Member of the Indiana Senate |
Term3: | 1880-1881 1883 |
Birth Date: | July 1, 1849 |
Birth Place: | Green Township, Hancock County, Indiana, U.S. |
Death Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Asbury (now DePauw) University, Indiana University |
Charles Lewis Henry (July 1, 1849 – May 2, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1895 to 1899.
Born in Green Township, Hancock County, Indiana, Henry moved with his parents to Pendleton, Indiana. He attended the common schools and Asbury (now DePauw) University and graduated from the law department of Indiana University at Bloomington in 1872. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pendleton, eventually moving to Anderson, Indiana in 1875. He served as a member of the state senate in 1880, 1881, and 1883.
Henry was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898.
He was interested in the development and operation of electric interurban railways. Henry is credited with coining the phrase "interurban" (of Latin derivation meaning "between cities"). At the time of his death he was president and receiver of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Co., which he had managed for twenty-three years. He died in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 2, 1927 and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Indiana.