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Preceded by
  
Occupation
  
Attorney

Preceded by
  
Edmund W. Hubard

Name
  
Henry Flood


Preceded by
  
W. C. Franklin

Party
  
Political party
  
Democratic

Siblings
  
Joel West Flood

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Full Name
  
Henry De La Warr Flood

Born
  
September 2, 1865Appomattox, Virginia, U.S. (
1865-09-02
)

Alma mater
  
Washington & Lee UniversityUniversity of Virginia

Role
  
Former Virginia State Senator

Died
  
December 8, 1921, Washington, D.C., United States

Previous office
  
Virginia State Senator (1891–1903)

Succeeded by
  
Henry St. George Tucker III

Henry De La Warr Flood (September 2, 1865 – December 8, 1921) was a Representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, brother of U.S. Representative Joel West Flood and uncle of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd.

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Early and family life

Born in "Eldon" in Appomattox County, Virginia, on September 2, 1865 to former Virginia state senator and CSA Major Joel Walker Flood (1839-1916) and his first wife Ella (1844-1885), Henry Flood had an elder sister Eleanor Bolling Flood Byrd (1864-1957)) as well as a younger half brother Joel West Flood (1894 -1964). Henry Flood attended public schools in Appomattox and Richmond, Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.

On April 18, 1914, the middle-aged bachelor married Anna Florence Portner (1888 - 1966), daughter of German beer brewer and inventor Robert Portner. They wed at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., followed by a reception at the Pan American Union Building. His young namesake Henry D. Flood III died in 1920, the year of his birth, as had their daughter Anna Portner Flood in 1916. Their children Bolling Byrd Flood (1915 - 2000) and Eleanor Faulkner Flood Schoellkopf (1917 - 1975) survived their parents

Career

Flood was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Appomattox, Virginia. He was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Appomattox County in 1891, 1895, and 1899.

Voters also elected Flood as Appomattox County's delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1887 to 1891 (a part time position). He served as member of the Senate of Virginia from 1891 to 1903. He was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Flood was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served until his death (March 4, 1901 – December 8, 1921). In his first term, he proposed creation of what ultimately became Shenandoah National Park more than a decade after his death, due to the efforts of his nephew Harry F. Byrd, who became one of Virginia's U.S. Senators in 1933.

Flood served as chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Territories (Sixty-second Congress).

In 1911, he was responsible for the Flood amendment to the enabling act for New Mexico statehood, which provided for a simple majority to ratify amendments to the New Mexico Constitution. In 1917, he helped to bring the United States into World War I as the author of the resolutions declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Death and legacy

Henry died on December 8, 1921, in Washington, D.C..

He was interred in a mausoleum on the courthouse green at Appomattox, Virginia; the courthouse is located in the Appomattox Historic District.

References

Henry D. Flood Wikipedia


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