Henry Grider

Henry Grider (July 16, 1796 – September 7, 1866) was a United States representative from Kentucky.

He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847) and elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his death in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1866.

As a congressman, he served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

His vote on the Thirteenth Amendment is recorded as nay.