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Henry Champion Deming was born on May 23, 1815 at Colchester, Connecticut, United States; the son of David Deming, a prominent merchant of Colchester and a member of the legislature and Abigail, daughter of Henry Champion. Henry was a member of a family identified throughout with Connecticut. John Deming recorded his homestead at Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States in 1641. His descendants settled at Lyme and later at Colchester.
Deming's parents were well-to-do, and his early education was of the best, being completed at Yale, where he graduated in 1836. He then entered the law school at Harvard (Bachelor of Laws, 1839).
Being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, Deming moved to New York City, where he opened a law office. His inclinations however were toward literature rather than law, and for a time he was on the editorial staff of the New World, a literary monthly.
In 1847 he returned to Connecticut and practised law at Hartford for a short time. Possessed of unusual gifts as a public speaker and debater, he entered into local politics.
A Democrat of the old school, he was elected as representative of Hartford in the state legislature in 1849, and from that time forward practically relinquished law and devoted himself to public affairs.
In 1854 was elected mayor of Hartford, which office he held for five successive years. In 1859 he became again the city representative in the state legislature, and in 1860 was once more elected mayor.
When the Southern states threatened secession he was strongly opposed to the adoption of coercive methods, and after the outbreak of the Civil War, announced that, though he adhered to the Federal government, he would not support a war of aggression or invasion of the seceded states.
The subsequent advance of the Confederate forces upon the Federal capital, however, induced him to become a strong Unionist, and the Republican majority elected him speaker pro tempore of the state legislature.
Late in 1861 the 12th (“Charter-Oak”) Connecticut Regiment was raised, in order to participate in the New Orleans expedition, and he was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He took part in all the subsequent operations under Gen. Butler and the regiment under his command was the first body of Federal troops to enter New Orleans.
He served two terms in Congress, being placed on the committees on military affairs and on expenditures in the War Department, of which latter he was chairman.
In the national House, his oratorical powers, strong character, and practical experience of war conditions combined to assure him an outstanding position. In 1866 he was a delegate to the Loyalists convention at Philadelphia, and in 1869 was appointed United States collector of Internal Revenue for his home district. This latter position he continued to hold till his death, which occurred at Hartford, October 9, 1872.
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Holding public office almost uninterruptedly for twenty-three years, prominent alike in federal, state, and municipal politics, his reputation rested principally upon his unusual oratorical powers, though he possessed great administrative ability.
Deming married twice: in 1850 he married Sarah, daughter of Laurent Clerc of Hartford, and in 1871 he married Annie Putnam, daughter of Myron W. Wilson and widow of Sherman L. Jitt- son.
