Harold Lovre

Harold Orrin Lovre ( born January 30, 1904 in Toronto, Deuel County, South Dakota; † January 17, 1972 in Silver Spring, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1957 he represented the first electoral district of the state of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Harold Lovre attended the common schools and the St. Olaf College in Northfield (Minnesota). Then he studied until 1927 at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began this career in Hayti exercise. In 1944 he moved to Watertown, where he also worked in this profession.

Political career

Harold Lovre was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1929 and 1932, and again in 1937-1940 he was a district attorney in Hamlin County. From 1939 to 1940 he was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the State of between 1941 and 1944 he was a member of the Senate of South Dakota. In the years 1947 and 1948 he was chairman of his party in South Dakota. In the congressional elections of 1948 he was elected to succeed Karl Earl Mundt in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he completed between January 1949 and January 3, 1957 four legislative sessions 3. In the 1956 elections he failed to George McGovern, the candidate of the Democratic Party.

After the end of his time in Congress Harold Lovre again worked as a lawyer. He died in January 1972 and was buried in Rockville.