Harold C. McGugin

Harold Clement McGugin (* November 22, 1893 in Liberty, Montgomery County, Kansas, † March 7, 1946 in Hot Springs, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1935 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harold McGugin attended the public schools in Liberty and pulled in 1908 after Coffeyville. There he attended the High School until 1912. After studying law at Washburn College in Topeka and its made ​​in 1915 admitted to the bar he began in Coffeyville to work in his new profession. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He served on the General Staff in Brest ( France).

Politically McGugin member of the Republican Party. Between 1927 and 1929 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kansas. In 1929, he was the legal representative of the City Coffeyville. In the congressional elections of 1930 he was in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William H. Sproul on March 4, 1931. After a re-election in 1932 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 two legislative sessions. In the 1934 elections, he was defeated by Democrat Edward White Patterson.

After the end of his time in Congress McGugin again worked as a lawyer. During the Second World War, he rose in the U.S. Army up to lieutenant colonel. He was reinstated in France, where he drew upon an illness, where he died in March 1947.