Henry Alexander Wise (August 21, 1906 – December 13, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
In June 1964, he ran in the Republican primary for Congress in the 31st District, but was defeated by Robert C.
[4] Shortly after moving to live in Lexington, Virginia in 1966, Wise was elected historian of the VMI Alumni Association.
The result, Drawing Out the Man: The VMI Story, was published through the University of Virginia Press in 1978, with the foreword written by Harry F. Byrd, Jr., who attended VMI from 1931 to 1933 before transferring to the University of Virginia.
He died on December 13, 1982; and was buried at the Wise family cemetery in Accomack County, Virginia.