Henry Michael Hyams (March 4, 1806 – June 25, 1875) was an American lawyer, planter and Democratic politician.
[1] Henry M. Hyams was born on March 4, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina.
[1] Indeed, as early as the 1830s, he joined a vigilante group to defend the institution of slavery.
His son, Henry M. Hyams Jr. (1846–1887), became a lawyer and practiced law in New Orleans.
His funeral was held by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim, and he was buried in Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans.