Life Span
to
Full name
John Brooks Henderson
Place of Birth
Danville, VA
Burial Place
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
Occupation
Politician
Date Event
On a party line vote, the U.S. Senate votes to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia
The U.S. Congress authorizes an Indian Peace Commission to negotiate with hostile Plains Indian tribes.
The Indian Peace Commission, newly appointed to negotiate with hostile Plains Indian tribes, organizes in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Indian Peace Commission meets with Sioux tribal leaders near Fort Thompson in South Dakota.
In Kansas, negotiations at Medicine Lodge River result in two peace treaties Plains tribes.
At Medicine Lodge River in Kansas, a third peace treaty is signed, this with the Cheyenne and Arapaho.
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
Fortieth Congress of the United States
How to Cite This Page: "Henderson, John Brooks," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hddev.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5871.