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Henry Kirke Porter (born November 24, 1840 in Concord, New Hampshire, † 10 April 1921 in Washington, DC) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives. Edit your careerQuelltext

Henry Porter attended both public and private schools including the New London Academy, also in New Hampshire. He then studied at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Island) until 1860. In 1860 he was co-founder of the YMCA. Between 1861 and 1866, he studied theology at the Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and the Rochester Theological Seminary in New York. In the years 1862 and 1863 he served during the civil war in the militia of the state Massachusetts. In 1863 Porter was a member of the United States Christian Commission. From 1866 he worked with his father in Pittsburgh in locomotive construction. They founded a company whose president he became. From 1868 to 1887 he directed the YMCA locality in Pittsburgh. Between 1892 and 1906 he was vice-president of the local Chamber of Commerce. From 1875 to 1921, Porter was a member of the YMCA International Committee; between 1890 and 1921 he served as curator of the Carnegie Institute. He was also curator of the Crozier Theological Seminary from 1871 to 1921. He also worked as an independent republican in politics.

At the Congressional elections in 1902, Porter was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the then newly established 31st Election District of Pennsylvania, where he took up his new mandate on 4 March 1903. Since he was not confirmed in 1904, he was only able to complete a legislative period in Congress by 3 March 1905. In 1904, Porter was a curator and chairman of the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he again worked in locomotive construction. He died in Washington on April 10, 1921, and was buried in Pittsburgh. Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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