Harry L. Haines

Harry Luther Haines ( born February 1, 1880 in Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania, † March 29, 1947 ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1939, and again from 1941 to 1943, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Haines attended the common schools, the State Normal School at Lock Haven and Patrick's Business College in York. Between 1906 and 1934 he was engaged in the manufacture and marketing of cigars. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1918 he was a delegate part of the regional Congress of Democrats Pennsylvania. Between 1921 and 1930 he was mayor of his home town Red Lion.

In the congressional elections of 1930, Haines was in the 22nd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Franklin Menges on March 4, 1931. After three re- elections he was initially able to complete four legislative sessions in Congress until January 3, 1939. Since 1933, most of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. Already in 1933 was repealed with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment in 1919 again. It was about the prohibition of alcohol trade.

1938 Harry Haines was not re-elected. Between 1939 and 1940 he worked for the financial management of the State of Pennsylvania. In the 1940 elections, he was elected again in the 22nd district in Congress, where he 1941 Chester H. Gross replaced again on January 3, which was two years before become his successor. Since he has not been confirmed again in 1942, he could spend up to January 3, 1943 just another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. This period was marked by the events of the Second World War, in which the United States since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, took an active part.

In the years 1943 and 1944 Harry Haines editor of the newspaper business of the company York Safe & Lock Co. was Thereafter he withdrew into retirement. He died on 29 March 1947 in his birthplace of Red Lion, where he was also buried.