Henry Day Penfield (July 23, 1900 – October 29, 1984) was an American politician and the mayor of the city of Evanston, Illinois.
[2] He attended Evanston High School and finished his final year at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
[1] In 1933, he ran for mayor alleging that the current administration tolerated the presence of speakeasies; he lost by 2,300 votes.
[1] With the outbreak of World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in charge of recruitment in the Chicago area.
[1] After the war, he worked for a recruitment firm, George Frye Associates[1] and then as the City Manager for Paradise Valley, Arizona[3] He retired in 1963.