Background
Henning, Edward J. was born on December 28, 1868 in Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Gotlib and Henriette (Erdman) Henning.
Henning, Edward J. was born on December 28, 1868 in Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Gotlib and Henriette (Erdman) Henning.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1894. Bachelor of Laws, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1896, Master of Laws, 1897, Doctor of Laws, 1925.
Born in Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, Henning received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wisconsin in 1894, an Bachelor of Laws from Columbian University in 1896, and an Master of Laws from Columbian University in 1897. He entered private practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1897, maintaining that practice until 1912, aside from service as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1910. He was in private practice in San Diego, California from 1913 to 1921.
He was an Assistant United States. Secretary of Labor from 1921 to 1925.
He was in private practice in Los Angeles, California, Washington, District of Columbia, and New York City from 1930 to 1937. On April 24, 1925, Henning received a recess appointment from President Calvin Coolidge to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by Benjamin F. Bledsoe.
Henning was formally nominated on December 8, 1925, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 1925, receiving his commission the same day. Henning served in that capacity until his resignation on December 31, 1929.
He died in Toledo, Ohio.
Member Harbor communications of San Diego. Headed American delegation to World Conference on Emigration and Immigration, Rome, May 1924. Member American delegation at conference at El Paso, with Mexico to draft border treaty, May 1925.
Mason.
Supreme Dictator Loyal Order Moose, 1915-1916.
Married Eugenia Husting, December 7, 1898.