Harold C. McGugin

Harold C. McGugin

Harold Clement McGugin (born November 22, 1893 in Liberty , Montgomery County , Kansas , † March 7, 1946 in Hot Springs , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1935 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harold McGugin attended the Liberty public schools and moved to Coffeyville in 1908 . There he attended high school until 1912. After studying law at Washburn College in Topeka and being admitted to the bar in 1915, he began working in his new profession in Coffeyville. During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in the US Army . He was on the General Staff in Brest ( France ).

Politically, McGugin was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1927 and 1929 he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives . In 1929 he was also the legal representative for the city of Coffeyville. In the 1930 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third district of Kansas , where he succeeded William H. Sproul on March 4, 1931 . After a re-election in 1932, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1935 . In the 1934 elections he was defeated by the Democrat Edward White Patterson .

After his tenure in Congress, McGugin returned to practice as a lawyer. During the Second World War he rose in the US Army to lieutenant colonel. He was deployed to France again, where he contracted an illness from which he died in March 1947.

Web links

• Harold C. McGugin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harold C. McGugin in the database of Find a Grave (English)