Harold S. Tolley

Harold Sumner Tolley ( born January 16, 1894 in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, † 20 May 1956 Kenmore, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1927 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

1903 Harold Tolley moved with his parents to Binghamton in upstate New York, where he attended the public schools; in 1916 he graduated from Syracuse University. He then studied theology. In 1916 and 1917 he was in New York City director of religious education at the city's Metropolitan Temple of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the American entry into World War Tolley resigned his ecclesiastical offices, and was a soldier in the United States Army. There he rose to the end of his active military service in 1919 up to the captain in an infantry unit. After that, he was a member of the Army's reserve. He then worked in shoe sales.

Politically Tolley was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was in the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John D. Clarke on March 4, 1925. In 1926, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Therefore, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1927. Also in 1926 Tolley was a delegate part of the regional Republican convention for the state of New York.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Harold Tolley took his previous activities on again. Between 1932 and 1937 he was a welfare officer of the city of Binghamton. After that, he was regional director in the Ministry of Welfare of Pennsylvania; while he was responsible for the western part of the state. This office he held until his death. He died on 20 May 1956 in Kenmore.