About Henry P. Torsey
Lived 1819 – 1892 (aged 73). Henry P. Torsey was an American politician.
Henry Pierson Torsey (August 7, 1819 – September 16, 1892) was an American Methodist Episcopal educator and politician.
Biography Born in Monmouth, Maine, Torsey studied at Kent's Hill Academy in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. In 1841 he taught school in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and in 1842 he became a teacher at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and then principal of the seminary. In 1855 and 1856, he served in the Maine State Senate and was an Independent. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Torsey to the office of secretary of Montana Territory, but Torsey declined the nomination. Torsey retired in 1882 because of ill health and died at Kent's Hill.
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American Methodist Episcopal educator and politician (1819–1892)
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Henry P. Torsey was born on 7 August 1819 in Monmouth.
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Henry P. Torsey died on 16 September 1892.
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Henry P. Torsey was a politician.
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