Henry Jarvis Raymond (24 January 1820-18 June 1869) was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1855 to 1856 (succeeding Sanford E. Church and preceding Henry R. Selden) and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 6) from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1867 (succeeding Elijah Ward and preceding Thomas E. Stewart).
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Henry Jarvis Raymond was born in Lima, New York in 1820, and he worked as a journalist for Horace Greeley's New York Herald and for the Courier and Enquirer before co-founding The New York Times in 1851. He served in the State Assembly from 1850 to 1851 as a radical abolitionist Whig, and he served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1855 to 1856, defeating Greeley. He played a prominent role in the foundation of the northern Republican Party, supporting President Abraham Lincoln's administration during the American Civil War and opposing the Radical Republicans after the war. He agreed with Lincoln that the Confederate states had never formally left the Union and that they should be readmitted rather than rendered "dead states" as Thaddeus Stevens argued. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867, when he retired to private life; he died two years later.