{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry Absalom Powell | honorific_suffix = | image = Henry Absalom Powell.jpg | image_size = | constituency_MP = Westmorland | parliament = Canadian | predecessor = Josiah Wood | successor = Henry Emmerson | term_start = 1895 | term_end = 1900 | birth_date = {{birth date|1855|04|06}} | birth_place = Richibucto, New Brunswick | death_date = {{death date and age|1930|04|15|1855|04|06}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Liberal-Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Henry Absalom Powell''' (April 6, 1855 – April 15, 1930) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=912|nolist=yes}}</ref>
Born in Richibucto, New Brunswick,<ref name="parl"/> the son of Edmund Powell,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> Powell was educated at Kent County Grammar School and at Mount Allison University where he graduated in 1875. He was called to the Bar of New Brunswick in 1880 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1894.<ref name="personnel"/> Powell practised law in Sackville and Saint John. He was also professor of law at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia.<ref name="johnson"/>
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the general elections of 1890, but resigned after the election was protested. He was re-elected, and again, in 1891, after being unseated. He was re-elected in 1892 and resigned in August 1895 when he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Westmorland. A Liberal-Conservative, he was re-elected in 1896. He was defeated in 1900, 1904, and 1911.<ref name="parl"/> He was a member of the Board of Governors of Mount Allison University.<ref name="personnel">{{cite book|title=Personnel of the Senate and House of Commons, eighth Parliament of Canada, elected June 23, 1896|year=1898|publisher=Montreal, Lovell|url=https://archive.org/details/personnelofsenat00montuoft}}</ref> He was appointed to the International Joint Commission in 1911 and served until 1928.
In 1878, he married Allie Payson. Powell died in Saint John at the age of 75.<ref name="johnson"/>
== electoral record == {{CanElec1-by|5 August 1895}} |- {{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}} |Liberal-Conservative |Henry A. Powell |align="right"| acclaimed {{end}} {{1896 Canadian federal election/Westmoreland}} {{1900 Canadian federal election/Westmoreland}}
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