John Henderson, Jr. (whose father John, Sr. was a United States Senator from Mississippi) was an attorney in New Orleans who, after the Civil War, was a member of the State Constitutional Covention that attempted to convene in 1866. Henderson was a group of whites that supported President Lincoln and that favored allowing African Americans the right to vote by integrating that guarantee in the new Louisiana Constitution (while the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, the 15th which allowed all to vote would not pass until 1870). This 1866 Convention met at the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans in July of that year (New Orleans had become the State Capitol during Reconstruction) and a mob of former Confederate soldiers assaulted the Convention delegates and killed hundreds of bystanders and supporters (most of whom were African American). One of the whites that sustained injuries and eventually died was John Henderson, Jr. This riot was known most commonly as the "Mechanics Institute Massacre" and the full story can be found at the National Parks Service website under the title ""An Absolute Massacre" – The New Orleans Slaughter of July 30, 1866".
It appears that his wife Catherine took their two sons to Oregon where they all lived until their deaths.
It appears that his wife Catherine took their two sons to Oregon where they all lived until their deaths.
John Henderson, Jr. (whose father John, Sr. was a United States Senator from Mississippi) was an attorney in New Orleans who, after the Civil War, was a member of the State Constitutional Covention that attempted to convene in 1866. Henderson was a group of whites that supported President Lincoln and that favored allowing African Americans the right to vote by integrating that guarantee in the new Louisiana Constitution (while the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, the 15th which allowed all to vote would not pass until 1870). This 1866 Convention met at the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans in July of that year (New Orleans had become the State Capitol during Reconstruction) and a mob of former Confederate soldiers assaulted the Convention delegates and killed hundreds of bystanders and supporters (most of whom were African American). One of the whites that sustained injuries and eventually died was John Henderson, Jr. This riot was known most commonly as the "Mechanics Institute Massacre" and the full story can be found at the National Parks Service website under the title ""An Absolute Massacre" – The New Orleans Slaughter of July 30, 1866".
It appears that his wife Catherine took their two sons to Oregon where they all lived until their deaths.
It appears that his wife Catherine took their two sons to Oregon where they all lived until their deaths.
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