Henry Ivory Emerson (March 15, 1871 – October 28, 1953) was a

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from

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. Born in Litchfield, Maine, Emerson moved with his parents to

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, where he attended the public schools and studied law. He moved to

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, in 1892 and was graduated from the

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in 1893. He was

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the same year and commenced practice in

. He served as member of the Cleveland City Council in 1902 and 1903. Emerson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920. He resumed the practice of law. He died in

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, October 28, 1953. He was interred in

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. Emerson married Nettie Naumann at Cleveland, December 25, 1894. She died August 15, 1913, and Emerson remarried to Lillian McCormick, originally from

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, February 19, 1917. Emerson was a

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member.

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