Forest Harness

Forest Arthur Harness (born 24 June 1895 in Kokomo, Indiana; † 29 July 1974 in Sarasota, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Forest Harness attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1917 admitted to the bar he began in 1919 in Kokomo in this profession work. In between, he served during World War II as a first lieutenant and later a captain in the U.S. Army. For his military services he received the Purple Heart. From 1920 to 1949 Harness belonged to the Army Reserve. Between 1920 and 1924 he was district attorney in Howard County; of 1931 and 1935 he worked for the Federal Ministry of Justice.

Politically Harness member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was elected the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Glenn Griswold on January 3, 1939. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949 five legislative sessions. These were determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Since 1947 Harness Chairman of the Select Committee on the Federal Communications Commission.

1948 Harness was not re-elected. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1953 and 1955 he practiced as a successor of Joseph C. Duke from the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate. In 1960, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Sarasota. There, Forest Harness is on July 29, 1974 also died.