Harry M. Wurzbach

Harry M. Wurzbach

Harry McLeary Wurzbach (born May 19, 1874 in San Antonio , Texas , †  November 6, 1931 there ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1931 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives with one interruption in 1929 and 1930 .

Career

Harry Wurzbach attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia ) and his admission to the bar in 1896, he began to work in this profession in San Antonio. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 he was a soldier in a volunteer infantry unit from Texas. After the war he moved to Seguin , where he continued to practice as a lawyer. Between 1900 and 1902 he served as a prosecutor in Guadalupe County . He then worked as a judge in the same district between 1904 and 1910. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1920 Wurzbach was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th  constituency of Texas , where he succeeded the Democrat Carlos Bee on March 4, 1921 , whom he had defeated in the election. After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1929 . In the elections of 1928 he was defeated by the Democrat Augustus McCloskey , who took office on March 4, 1929. Wurzbach appealed against the outcome of the election because of irregularities. When this objection was granted, he was able to resume his old mandate on February 10, 1930 and oust McCloskey from Congress. After another election, Harry Wurzbach was able to remain in the US House of Representatives until his death on November 6, 1931. His nephew Robert C. Eckhardt (1913-2001) was also a congressman for Texas.

Web links

• Harry M. Wurzbach in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harry M. Wurzbach in the database of Find a Grave (English)