Ralph Horr

Ralph Ashley Horr (born August 12, 1884 in Saybrook , McLean County , Illinois , †  January 26, 1960 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1933 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ralph Horr attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana . In 1908 he moved to Seattle. After studying law at the University of Washington there and being admitted to the bar in 1911, he began working in his new profession in Seattle. He was assistant chamberlain in King County in 1911 and 1912 . Politically, Horr became a member of the Republican Party , which he chaired in King County. In 1918, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Seattle. Between August 31, 1918 and March 8, 1920 Horr was a lieutenant in the US Army . He was deployed on the European theater of war during the final phase of the First World War .

In the 1930 congressional elections, Horr was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Washington state , where he succeeded John Franklin Miller on March 4, 1931 . Since he was no longer nominated for the elections of 1932 by his party, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1933 . During this time the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed.

In 1934 Horr sought unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the US Senate elections . Two years later he also missed the nomination for the gubernatorial election . In 1948 he finally failed with a renewed candidacy for the office of mayor of Seattle. Until 1957 Horr worked as a lawyer; then he retired. He died in Seattle on January 26, 1960.

Web links

• Ralph Horr in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ralph Horr in the database of Find a Grave (English)