{{Short description|American politician}} {{other people||Henry Dwight (disambiguation)}} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000579. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry W. Dwight | honorific_suffix = | image = File:Henry Williams Dwight by John Trumbull 1827.jpeg | caption = Portrait of Henry W. Dwight by [[John Trumbull]], 1827. [[Yale University Art Gallery]] | alt = | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1821 | term_end1 = March 3, 1831 | predecessor1 = [[Henry Shaw (Massachusetts)|Henry Shaw]] | successor1 = [[George N. Briggs]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 7th congressional district|7th district]] (1821–1823)<br>[[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th district]] (1823–1831) | birth_date = {{birth date|1788|2|26}} | birth_place = [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1845|2|21|1788|2|26}} | death_place = [[New York City]], New York, U.S. | spouse = | party = [[Federalist Party|Federalist]]<br>[[National Republican Party|National Republican]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Williams College]] | occupation = Lawyer | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Henry Williams Dwight''' (February 26, 1788 – February 21, 1845) was a lawyer and politician who became [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Life== Born February 26, 1788 in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]], his father was also named Henry Williams Dwight (1757–1804) and mother was Abigail Welles (1763–1840). His grandfather was [[Joseph Dwight]] (1703–1765), and mother traced her ancestry to [[Thomas Welles]] (1590–1659).<ref name="dwight">{{cite book |author=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |author-link=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |title= The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass |volume= 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghcfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA750 |year=1874 |publisher=J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders |pages=750–754 }}</ref> Dwight was a trustee of [[Williams College]] in [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]] from 1829-1837. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1809 and practiced in Stockbridge. During the [[War of 1812]] Dwight served as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of General Whiton, and kept the title colonel for the rest of his life. He served as member of the Massachusetts State house of representatives in 1818.
Dwight was elected as a [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] to the [[17th United States Congress|Seventeenth]] Congress starting on March 4, 1821. He was reelected as an Adams-Clay Federalist to the [[18th United States Congress|Eighteenth]] Congress.
Dwight was elected as an Adams candidate to the [[19th United States Congress|Nineteenth]] and [[20th United States Congress|Twentieth]] Congresses. Dwight was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the [[21st United States Congress|Twenty-first]] Congress until March 3, 1831. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1830 to the [[22nd United States Congress|Twenty-second]] Congress. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1834.<ref>{{CongBio |D000579 |inline=please}}</ref>
He received an honorary degree from William College, and as a trustee nominated [[Mark Hopkins (educator)|Mark Hopkins]] as a replacement professor in 1830.<ref name="dwight"/> He bred purebred sheep, horses, and cattle. He married Frances Fowler (1797–after 1874) on November 10, 1824. They had one daughter who died young, and two sons. Henry Williams Dwight, 3rd was born September 23, 1825, and died May 16, 1861. James Fowler Dwight was born January 30, 1830, joined the Union Army in the [[American Civil War]] and rose to rank of colonel. Dwight died in [[New York City]] on February 21, 1845. He was interred in Stockbridge Cemetery, [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]].<ref name="dwight"/>
==See also== * [[New England Dwight family]]
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