Harry A. Hanbury

Harry Alfred Hanbury ( born January 1, 1863 in Bristol, United Kingdom, † August 22, 1940 in Methuen, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Alfred Hanbury was born during the Victorian era in Bristol. His family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City when he was still at a young age. He attended public schools and graduated from Boys' High School. Then he went commercial transactions after and built an iron hut.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He was a delegate in 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1906 and 1914 to the State Conventions in part. In the congressional elections of 1900, Hanbury was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bertram Tracy Clayton on March 4, 1901. He retired after March 3, 1903 from from the Congress.

After that he was from March 1903 to November 1909 United States Shipping Commissioner at the Port of New York. Then he built a foundry and a machine factory in Brooklyn. In addition, he worked in engineering and ship restoration. He died on 22 August 1940 in Metheun and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.