Harry C. Canfield

Harry Clifford Canfield (* November 22, 1875 in Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana; † February 9, 1945 in Batesville, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Canfield attended the common schools and some trade schools. Between 1896 and 1898 he worked as a teacher in Dearborn County. Since 1899, Canfield was located in Batesville, where he worked in the furniture business and as a cabinet maker. He also engaged in farming and in the banking industry.

Politically Canfield was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican John S. Benham on March 4, 1923. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 five legislative sessions. Since 1929 the work of the U.S. House of Representatives was determined by the global economic crisis. Shortly before the end of his last term of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.

1932 Harry Canfield has not been nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he worked again in the furniture industry. He died on February 9, 1945 in Batesville.