Henry M. Kimball

Henry Mahlon Kimball (born August 27, 1878 in Orland , Steuben County , Indiana , †  October 19, 1935 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) was an American politician . In 1935 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Kimball attended his home public schools and Hillsdale College in Michigan. He then studied literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1904, he began to work in his new profession in Orland. In 1907 he moved to Rosebud , Nevada , where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1908 he was a traveling salesman for a company in San Francisco for some time . In 1909 he moved to Portland , Oregon and in 1917 to Kalamazoo, where he practiced as a lawyer.

Politically, Kimball was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded the late Joseph L. Hooper on January 3, 1935 . Kimball could only exercise his mandate until his death on October 19 of the same year. In a by-election, Verner Main was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives.

Web links

• Henry M. Kimball in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry M. Kimball in the database of Find a Grave (English)