Henry Shaw Junior

Senator Henry Shaw Junior (d. 6 December 1926 ) was a United States senator from New York during the 1920s. He was the son of newspaper magnate Henry Shaw Senior.

Biography
Henry Shaw Junior was born in the United States in or before 1890. His father was a newspaper magnate, and he had at least one sibling, a younger brother, Langdon.

Shaw was elected to the United States Senate in 1920. As such, he was his father's pride and joy, while his brother was seen as a disappointment.

In 1926, while running for re-election, he held a rally for his supporters in New York, which was also by picketed by members of the New Salem Philanthropic Society. It was here that he was killed by Credence Barebone, whose powers had manifested, as revenge for calling him a freak during the Second Salemers' visit to his father's office.

Behind the scenes

 * Henry Shaw Jr is portrayed by Josh Cowdery in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
 * In the real world, the Senator from New York in 1926 was James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr of the Republican Party, who had been in office since 1915 but was defeated for re-election that year by Democrat Robert F. Wagner. Unlike his fictional counterpart, Wadsworth Jr was vocally against Prohibition, having even voted against the Eighteenth Amendment when it was before the Senate in 1919.

Notes and references
9. Senator Henry Shaw's character from the movie Fantastic Beasts is based on New York City Mayor James Walker who was also a NYS Senator up till 1926. The movie and real life resemblances between the actor playing Sen. Shaw and the state Senator and NYC Mayor "Beau James" (Bob Hope did the movie) of the 1920's is unmistakeable. The John Voight newspaper tycoon is probably based on William Randolph Hearst who also collected old castles and mansions that he refurbished and eventually went almost broke doing so. John Voight's character Shaw Sr gave a fund raiser for his son the Senator with nasty results for the son. The real life Voight gave the intro speech for Trump's inaugural. Fictional history never repeats but always rhymes.

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