Henry Miller Watts (October 10, 1805 – November 30, 1890) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
[3] He was the grandson of Revolutionary War officers Brigadier-general Frederick Watts (who immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1760 from Great Britain)[2] and, his namesake, Lieutenant Colonel, later General, Henry Miller,[4] who led Continental Army units in the siege of Boston and the engagements of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.
"[2] He graduated from Dickinson College in 1824 and then studied law in Carlisle under Andrew Carothers,[1] a pupil of his later father.
[6] President Johnson had previously nominated the eight men (successively, Edgar Cowan, Frank P. Blair Jr., James W. Nesmith, John P. Stockton, Henry J. Raymond, Horace Greeley, Samuel S. Cox, and Henry A. Smythe) to be Minister, but the Senate rejected or declined to consider them, most likely because of the President's disputes with the Congress over other issues.
[6] After leaving his post, he visited Russia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other European countries.