This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yNi.2ACEB/5406 Message Board Post: From Ancestry.com's "Biographies of Notable Americans-1904": HENDERSON, John, senator, was born probably in New York or Ohio in 1795. He was a friend and contemporary of John A. Quitman, and both these young lawyers appear in Mississippi the same year, 1821. Henderson located in Woodville, the capital of Wilkinson county, while Quitman settled at Memphis, the capital of the adjacent county. Henderson was a representative in the state legislature in 1835 and a U.S. senator, 1839-45. He favored the annexation of Texas and the conquest of Mexico and Cuba, and with Governor Quitman was complicated in the Lopez filibustering expedition. In 1851 the two men were arrested and tried before the U.S. district court in New Orleans for violating the neutrality laws of 1818, and were both acquitted. Henderson died at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1857. Deloris Williams