Harry E. Hull, 1922 bio

HULL, HARRIS

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 11/23/2004 at 07:42:08

Harry E. Hull
Representative in congress from the Second district of Iowa, composing the counties of Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine and Scott. Republican, of Williamsburg, Iowa county, Iowa, born Belvidere, Alleghany county, N.Y., March 12, 1864; moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1873; common school education; grain buyer at Palo, Iowa, 1883; Williamsburg, 1884; married Mary Louise Harris June 3, 1891; wife died May 21, 1917; one child, Harris, 12 years old; alderman 2 years , mayor 10 years, postmaster 13 years, Williamsburg, Iowa; member Progress Club, Episcopal Church, I.O.O.F., K. of P., B.P.O.E., and Mason (thirty-second degree); nominated congress January 29, 1914; election held February 10, 1914, first real indication of a reunited republican party. Elected to the sixty-fourth, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh congresses.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of Representatives in Congress, pg. 318

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)