Background
Grider, Henry was born on July 16, 1796 in Garrard County, Kentucky, United States.
United States representative politician
Grider, Henry was born on July 16, 1796 in Garrard County, Kentucky, United States.
He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Grider served in the War of 1812. He also served in the Kentucky Senate 1833-1837. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847) and elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his death in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1866.
As a congressman, he served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
He was buried in Old College Street Cemetery.
Democratic Party, Whig Party.
After the war, he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1827 and 1831.