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G. A. Henry
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Biography
Gustavus Adolphus Henry (1804-1880) was a Whig Party leader and a law school classmate of future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Henry, nicknamed the “Eagle Orator of Tennessee,” ran for governor of Tennessee in 1853, an election he lost to Democrat Andrew Johnson. During the Civil War, he served for three years in the Confederate Senate.