Henry Marshall (December 28, 1805 – July 13, 1864) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Louisiana to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
There, Marshall became a planter, owning 8,000 acres of land and 201 slaves with property valued at over $200,000 (~$5.53 million in 2023) by 1860, making him extremely wealthy by contemporary standards.
He soon defeated Benjamin Lewis Hodge for election as a delegate to the Montgomery Constitutional Convention that became the Provisional Congress by eight votes.
An extreme advocate of states' rights, he refused to moderate his views despite the conditions of the war, unlike other Louisiana congressmen, and in contrast to the latter was reluctant to grant President Jefferson Davis new powers.
[2] Possibly because his views were not in accord with the war situation, Marshall declined to run for reelection in 1863 and retired to his plantation, Land's End, where he died on July 13, 1864.