Henry W. Webb

{{Short description|American politician}}

Henry W. Webb was a political leader in Reconstruction era South Carolina. He was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 and elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives the same year.

He was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R2ASAAAAYAAJ&q=%22henry+w.+webb%22+south+carolina&pg=RA2-PP1|title=The Constitution of South Carolina: Adopted April 16, 1868, and the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly Passed at the Special Session of 1868[-1871] Together with the Military Orders Therein Re-enacted|first=South|last=Carolina|date=June 11, 1868|publisher=John W. Denny, printer to the state|via=Google Books}} He represented Georgetown County, South Carolina.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dUfVeiy4yIC&q=%22henry+w.+webb%22+south+carolina&pg=PA175|title=Horry County, South Carolina, 1730-1993|first=Catherine Heniford|last=Lewis|date=June 11, 1998|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=9781570032073|via=Google Books}} He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnZMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22henry+w.+webb%22+south+carolina&pg=PA6|page=2|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina|date=June 11, 1868|publisher=The State|via=Google Books}} He and a couple of other state legislators were dead by November 1869, and James A. Bowley was elected to replace him as Georgetown representative.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nVMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22henry+w.+webb%22+south+carolina&pg=PA2|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina|date=June 11, 1870|publisher=The State|via=Google Books}}{{cite web |title=South Carolina During the Late 1800s - The 48th General Assembly (1868-1870) |url=https://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/post_war/sc_late_1800s_48th_general_assembly_members.html |website=www.carolana.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}} He was white.{{Cite journal|title=Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress - The Journal of Negro History, Jan., 1920, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan., 1920), pp. 63-119|jstor = 2713503}}

He was originally from Connecticut then moved to Georgetown around 1866. He had a shop from which he traded goods for rice, then turned his hand to running a hotel. In January 1868 he was accused of assault and battery on a small black boy.{{cite news |title=22 Jan 1868, 4 - The Charleston Mercury at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/605458030/?terms=%22Henry%2BW.%2BWebb%22%2BGeorgetown |accessdate=25 June 2020 |work=Newspapers.com |page=4 |language=en}}