Harry C. Ransley

Harry Clay Ransley ( born February 5, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † November 7, 1941 ) was an American politician. Between 1920 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Ransley attended both public and private schools and then worked in retail. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1891 and 1894 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Over a period of 16 years he was a member of the City Council of Philadelphia; which he served for eight years as its chairman. In June 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, to the President William Howard Taft was nominated for re-election. From 1916 to 1920, Ransley sheriff in Philadelphia County. From 1916 to 1919 he served as party leader of the Republicans in Philadelphia.

Following the resignation of Congressman J. Hampton Moore Ransley was a candidate of his party in the due election for the third seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1920. After eight elections he could remain until January 3, 1937 at the Congress. Since 1933, he represented there the first electoral district of his state. Since 1933, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were to adopt, which Ransleys party faced a rather negative.

In 1936, Harry Ransley was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked in retail. He died on November 7, 1941 in Philadelphia.