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Henry Kirke Porter

Manufacturer of Locomotives/Congressman

Centurion, 1896–1921

Born 24 November 1840 in Concord, New Hampshire

Died 10 April 1921 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Proposed by Robert Underwood Johnson and D. Maitland Armstrong

Elected 1 February 1896 at age fifty-five