Henry was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Carl Jacobsen and Helga Elise Pedersen.
[1] During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Nybrott was stopped briefly in August 1940, and after being resumed, it was merged with the bourgeois Østlands-Posten to form Larvik Dagblad from 1 July 1943.
The two editors-in-chief Ingjald Nordstad and Øyvind Næss were arrested on 8 December 1943, and Henry replaced them for the rest of the war.
[2] The time as newspaper editor under Nazi rule did not hurt Henry's career, as he was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the Market towns of Vestfold county in 1945.
Henry worked with taxation in Larvik from 1956 to 1966, then as an office manager in the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted from 1966 to 1972.