Eli J. Henkle

Eli Jones Henkle ( November 24 , 1825 — November 1 , 1893 ) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland , serving three terms from 1875 — 1881 .

Henkle was born in Westminster, Maryland and completed an academic course. He taught school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland , studied medicine, and was graduated from the University Of Maryland At Baltimore in 1850 . He practiced his profession in Brooklyn, Maryland , and became a trustee and professor at the Maryland Agricultural College at College Park, which is now the University Of Maryland, College Park .

Henkle became a member of the Maryland House Of Delegates in 1863 , and served as a member of the State constitutional convention in 1864. He served in the Maryland State Senate in 1867 , 1868 , and 1870 , and was again a member of the House of Delegates from 1872 to 1875 .

In 1872, Henkle served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (serving from March 4 , 1875 until March 3 , 1881). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress, and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1889. He later returned to Baltimore, where he died in 1893 . He is interred in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Baltimore.

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