Harry A. Hanbury

Harry Alfred Hanbury (born January 1, 1863 in Bristol , Great Britain , † August 22, 1940 in Methuen , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1903 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harry Alfred Hanbury was born in Bristol during the Victorian Age . His family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City when he was a young age. He attended public schools there and graduated from Boys' High School . Then he went about commercial business and built an ironworks.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . He attended the State Conventions as a delegate in 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1906 and 1914 . In the congressional elections of 1900 Hanbury was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Bertram Tracy Clayton on March 4, 1901 . He left the congress after March 3, 1903 .

He was then from March 1903 to November 1909 United States Shipping Commissioner in the Port of New York . Then he set up a foundry and a machine factory in Brooklyn . In addition, he worked there in mechanical engineering and ship renovation. He died in Metheun on August 22, 1940 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Web links

• Harry A. Hanbury in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harry A. Hanbury in the database of Find a Grave (English)