Cecil M. Harden

Cecil Murray Harden ( born November 21, 1894 in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana; † December 5, 1984 in Lafayette, Indiana) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1959, she represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cecil Harden attended the public schools until 1912 their homeland and studied at Indiana University in Bloomington thereafter. Subsequently, she worked as a teacher. Politically, she became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1944 and 1959, and again from 1964 to 1972 she served on the Republican National Committee. In the years 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1968, she was delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions.

In the congressional elections of 1948, Harden was in the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Noble J. Johnson on January 3, 1949. After four elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1959 five legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Cold War, the Korean War and the civil rights movement. In 1958, Cecil Harden was not re-elected.

Between 1959 and 1961 she worked as a women's representative of the Federal Ministry of Postal Services. In the years 1972 and 1973 she served on a advisory committee of the White House, which dealt with issues of aging. Cecil Harden died on December 5, 1984 in Lafayette at the age of 90 years.