Henry Gold Danforth (June 14, 1854 – April 8, 1918) was a

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from

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. Born in the town of

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(now part of Rochester), Danforth attended private schools in

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, and

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. He graduated from the collegiate department of

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in 1877 and from the law department in 1880. He was

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in 1880 and commenced practice in Rochester. He served as director of the Rochester General Hospital 1889-1918. He served as member of the board of managers of the New York State Reformatory,

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from 1900 to 1902. Trustee of the Reynolds Library 1906–1918. Danforth was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1917). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916. He resumed the practice of law. He died in

, April 8, 1918. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Danforth, Henry Gold 1854 births 1918 deaths Harvard Law School alumni Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American lawyers People from Monroe County, New York 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives