About Henry English Read
Lived 1824 – 1868 (aged 43). Henry English Read was an American politician.
Henry English Read (December 25, 1824 – November 9, 1868) was an American politician from Kentucky who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Read was born in LaRue County, Kentucky. He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress. Three years after the war, he killed himself. Interment was in the Elizabethtown City Cemetery in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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Henry English Read was born on 25 December 1824 in LaRue County.
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Henry English Read died on 9 November 1868.
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