Henry Edwin Harmar Brereton (July 12, 1865 – May 13, 1957) was an American politician from New York.
[1] The family moved to Yonkers, New York where Henry's father died in 1870.
Henry Brereton studied at the Bussey Institution from 1891 to 1892,[2] and then settled on the shore of Lake George in Warren County, New York where he engaged in agriculture, forestry, and the real estate business.
[3] Brereton was a member of the New York State Assembly (Warren Co.) in 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917; and was Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections from 1914 to 1916.
He died on May 13, 1957, at his home in Diamond Point, New York, after a long illness.