Harris Ellsworth

Mathew Harris Ellsworth ( born September 17, 1899 in Hoquiam, Washington; † February 7, 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1947 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a child came Harris Ellsworth with his parents to Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Later the family moved to the neighboring Wendling. Ellsworth attended the public schools of his new home. During World War II he was in a training unit of the U.S. Army. Then he studied until 1922 at the University of Oregon journalism.

Subsequently he worked in the newspaper industry and the wood processing industry. Between 1926 and 1928 he also published a magazine for the wood industry. In the years 1928 and 1929, he gave at the University of Oregon itself lectures on journalism. Since 1929 he was also the editor and co-owner of the newspaper " Rosenburg New Review". In 1936 he was involved in the establishment of the radio station KRNR, one of the first radio stations Oregon.

Ellsworth was a member of the Republican Party. In 1941 he was elected to the Senate from Oregon, before the newly created fourth electoral district of Oregon moved into the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm elections of 1942. After he was confirmed in the following years each, he could exercise his mandate between January 1943 and January 3, 1957 3 in seven legislative sessions. He was at times a member of the Budget Committee and the House Rules Committee. In 1956, his candidacy narrowly failed. He was defeated by Democrat Charles O. Porter.

After the end of his activity in Congress Ellsworth was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the Civil Service Commission. This office he held from 1957-1959. He then worked again in the newspaper business. He also became involved in the real estate business. In the 1970s, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Albuquerque. He is also passed in 1986.