John Henderson

John Brooks Henderson Jr. (February 18, 1870 – January 4, 1923) was an American diplomat, educator, and malacologist. and social activist Mary Foote Henderson, who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street." His father was known as the Senator who introduced the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery and one of seven Republicans who voted for acquittal during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in May 1868.

Career From 1896 to 1897, he was Private Secretary to the John W. Foster while Foster was diplomatic advisor to the Chinese government. In 1897, he traveled with General Nelson A. Miles to Europe and toured the Ottoman Empire as an unofficial observer.

Personal life

In 1903, he married Angelica Schuyler Crosby of New York in Jefferson County, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Harriet (née Van Rensselaer) Crosby and John Schuyler Crosby, the 5th Governor of the Montana Territory, and the paternal granddaughter of Clarkson F. Crosby and Angelica (née Schuyler) Crosby (a relative of U.S. Senator and noted Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler), and the great-great-granddaughter of William Floyd, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. she was the granddaughter of General Stephen Van Rensselaer IV, who was the last patroon of Rensselaerwyck and the son of Stephen Van Rensselaer III. Together, they were the adoptive parents of Beatrice Van Rensselaer Henderson (1906–1992), who was married to Joseph Wholean (1894–1971)

Henderson died in Washington, D.C., on January 4, 1923. which is native to the West Indies.

Publications American Diplomatic Questions, 1901, McMillan Company. New York. Cruise of the Tomas Barrera, 1916, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York.