Harry G. Haskell

Harry G. Haskell

Harry Garner Haskell (born May 27, 1921 in Wilmington , Delaware , † January 16, 2020 ) was an American politician ( Republican ). Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the state of Delaware in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harry Haskell visited the Tower Hill School in Wilmington and St. Mark's School in Southborough ( Massachusetts ). Between 1940 and 1942 he studied at Princeton University . During the Second World War he was in the US Coast Guard's reserves from 1942 to 1946. After the war he went into business and was from 1947 to 1948 HR manager of the Speakman Co .; between 1948 and 1953 he was head of the company Greenhill Dairies, Inc. He then worked in 1953 and 1954 for the Federal Ministry of Health, Education and Welfare. Then he acquired the Hill Girt Farm in Chadds Ford ( Pennsylvania ) and was president of the Research Foundation at the University of Delaware .

Haskell became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1952 and 1984 he participated as a delegate at all Republican National Conventions . In 1956 he was elected to the US House of Representatives with 52% of the vote against the Democratic incumbent Harris B. McDowell . There he was only able to complete one legislative period between January 3, 1957 and January 3, 1959, because he lost to his predecessor McDowell in the 1958 elections by about 700 votes. After his time in Congress was over , Haskell returned to his private business. Between 1969 and 1973 he was Mayor of Wilmington City. He became a member of a Presidents National Reading Council and in 1970 head of Abercrombie & Fitch . He later lived in retired Chadds Ford.

Web links

• Harry G. Haskell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)