Harry G. Haskell, Jr.

Harry Garner Haskell ( born May 27, 1921 in Wilmington, Delaware ) is a former American politician. Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Haskell attended 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 from 1942 to 1946 in the Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard. After the war he went into the business and was from 1947 to 1948 personnel manager of the company Speakman Co.; 1948-1953 he was head of the firm Greenhill Dairies, Inc. He then worked in the years 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 was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1952 and 1984 he took part in all the Republican National Convention as a delegate. In 1956 he was elected with 52% of the vote against the Democratic incumbent Harris B. McDowell in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he was able to complete only one legislative period between January 1957 and January 3, 1959 3, because he with about 700 votes lost difference against his predecessor McDowell in the elections of 1958. After the end of his time in Congress to re Haskell devoted his private transactions. Between 1969 and 1973 he was mayor of the city of Wilmington. He became a member of a national literature Council ( Presidents National Reading Council) and in 1970 head of the company Abercrombie & Fitch. Today he lives in Chadds Ford retired.