Biography

10/10/1805 - 11/30/1890

WATTS, Henry Miller, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, October 10, 1805 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.; graduated, Dickinson College, 1824; lawyer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1835-1836, 1836-1837 and 1837-1838 term; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1839); appointed, United States District Attorney, Federal Court, Philadelphia (1841-1868); presidential appointee, Minister to Austria (1868-1869); engaged, iron manufacturing; died, November 30, 1890 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery East, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.