Harold Earthman

Harold Henderson Earthman (born April 13, 1900 in Murfreesboro , Tennessee , †  February 26, 1987 there ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1947 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harold Earthman attended public schools in his home country including the Webb School at Bell Buckle . He then studied at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and at the University of Texas in Austin . During the First World War he was a soldier in the US Army . He was part of a training program ( Student's Army Training Corps ). After the war, he moved to Nashville , where he worked in the banking industry between 1921 and 1925. After studying law at Cumberland University in Lebanonand his admission to the bar in 1926, he began practicing his new profession in Murfreesboro in 1927. He also worked in agriculture.

Politically, Earthman was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1931 and 1932 . From 1942 to 1945 he was a judge in Rutherford County . Between 1940 and 1946 he administered the Tennessee State War Bonds. In the 1944 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Jim Nance McCord on January 3, 1945 . Since he failed in the primary elections of his party in 1946, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1947 . During this time the Second World War ended .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Harold Earthman returned to work as a lawyer. He was also the owner of Earthman Enterprises . In the following years he did not appear politically. He died on February 26, 1987 in his native Murfreesboro.

literature

• Andrew R. Dodge: Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 . ( the Continental Congress, Sept. 5, 1774 to Oct. 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789 to Jan. 3, 2005 inclusive ), Washington DC 2005 , P. 998.

Web links

• Harold Earthman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harold Earthman in the database of Find a Grave (English)