Henry L. Myers

Henry Lee Myers
United States Senator from Montana
In office March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1923
Preceded by	Thomas H. Carter
Succeeded by	Burton K. Wheeler
Member of the Montana Senate
In office 1899-1903
Personal details
Born	(1862-10-09)October 9, 1862 Boonville, Missouri, U.S.
Died	November 11, 1943(1943-11-11) (aged 81) Billings, Montana, U.S.
Resting place	Riverview Cemetery, Hamilton, Montana, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Profession	Law

Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States Senator from Montana.

Biography

Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association in 1884, commencing practice in Boonville. He moved to Hamilton, Montana in 1893, and was prosecuting attorney of Ravalli County, Montana from 1895 to 1899. He was a member of the Montana Senate from 1899 to 1903, and was a district judge of the fourth judicial district of Montana from 1907 to 1911.

Myers was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1910 and reelected in 1916, serving from March 4, 1911, until March 4, 1923. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1922. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Sixty-third Congress) and a member of the Committees on Public Lands (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), and Indian Depredations (Sixty-sixth Congress). In 1923, he moved to Billings, Montana and continued the practice of his profession. He was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Montana in 1927 and once again resumed the practice of law in 1929.

He died in Billings, Montana in 1943 and was interred in Riverview Cemetery in Hamilton, Montana.

References

• United States Congress. "Henry L. Myers (id: M001129)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

United States Senators from Montana
Class 1	Sanders Mantle Clark Gibson Carter Myers Wheeler Ecton Mansfield Melcher Burns Tester
Class 2	Power Carter Clark Dixon T. Walsh Erickson Murray Metcalf Hatfield Baucus J. Walsh Daines

Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands (1816–1921)	Morrow Williams Thomas Barton King Kane Poindexter Ewing Walker Smith Woodbridge Breese Felch Borland Dodge Stuart Johnson Harlan Pomeroy Sprague Oglesby McDonald Plumb Dolph Berry Dubois Hansbrough Nelson Smoot Chamberlain Myers Smoot
Public Lands and Surveys (1921–1947)	Smoot Lenroot Ladd Stanfield Nye Kendrick Wagner Adams Hatch
Interior and Insular Affairs (1947–1977)	Butler O'Mahoney Butler Cordon Murray Anderson Jackson
Energy and Natural Resources (1977–)	Jackson McClure Johnston F. Murkowski Bingaman F. Murkowski Bingaman Domenici Bingaman Wyden Landrieu L. Murkowski