Henry C. Deming

Henry Champion Deming (May 23, 1815 – October 8, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Early life
Born in Colchester, Connecticut, Deming pursued classical studies. He was graduated from Yale College in 1836 where he was an 1836 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society, and from the Harvard Law School in 1839.

Career
He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and began practice in New York City but devoted his time chiefly to literary work. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1847.

Politics
He served as member of the State House of Representatives in 1849, 1850, and 1859–1861. He served as member of the State Senate in 1851. He served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut from 1854 to 1858 and 1860–1862.

Military
He entered the Union Army in September 1861 as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. He served as mayor of New Orleans under martial law from October 1862 to February 1863, when he resigned from the Army.

Return to Politics
Deming was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress.

He was appointed collector of internal revenue in 1869.

Death
He continued in this posting and served until his death in Hartford, Connecticut, October 8, 1872. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.

His children by his first wife Sarah Clerc (daughter of Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America):


 * Henry Champion Deming, Jr. (November 25, 1850 – January 19, 1931), president Mercantile Trust Company
 * Charles Clerc Deming (May 22, 1852 – July 23, 1924), lawyer and railroad executive.
 * Laurent Clerc Deming (November 21, 1860 – October 12, 1945), railroad executive
 * Mary Shipman Deming (d. November 11, 1861)