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Henry Tooley (June 27, 1774–June 18, 1848) was an American physician, meteorologist, astronomer, pastor, and local politician who served as mayor of Natchez, Mississippi in 1837–1838. In addition to serving as mayor, he was a justice of the peace and the president of the board of county police. Tooley was born in Craven County, North Carolina. He worked as a doctor in Tennessee for some time before moving to Adams County, Mississippi. Based on a slave sale ad, in 1815 he and his brother lived near the territorial capital of Washington, Mississippi. He had his own astronomical–meteorological observatory, stocked with "practically the only" telescope in the state. He created daily meteorological records for 27 years and documented all visible solar and lunar eclipses. Dr. Tooley published monographs on the 1823 yellow fever outbreak in Natchez and the 1840 Natchez tornado. He was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman. Tooley was treasurer and lecturer of a Masonic lodge that in 1817 initiated Joseph E. Davis, brother of Jefferson Davis. Tooley was the first Grand Master of a Mississippi Masonic lodge organized in 1818. Younger Masonic brothers called him "Granda Toolep". The cause of Tooley's death was listed as "general debility". The portrait painter James Tooley Jr. was his son.