Harrison Henry Atwood

Harrison Henry Atwood ( born August 26, 1863 in North Londonderry, Windham County, Vermont, † October 22, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harrison Atwood attended public schools in Boston. After a subsequent study architecture, he began to work there as an architect. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1887 to 1889 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; in the years 1889 and 1890 he was a municipal architect in Boston. Atwood was both a member of the State Board of Republicans (1887-1889) as well as the board of the municipal Party in Boston ( 1888-1894 ). In the years 1888 and 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on each of which Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Atwood was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Michael J. McEttrick on March 4, 1895. Since he was not nominated in 1896 for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Atwood operated again as an architect in Boston. Between 1915 and 1928 he was several times a deputy in the State Parliament. In 1918, he unsuccessfully sought his return to Congress. Since 1938 he lived in Wellesley Hills. Harrison Atwood died on 22 October 1954 in Boston.