Harry Sandager

Harry Sandager ( born April 12, 1887 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † December 24, 1955 in Cranston, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Sandager attended the public schools in Cranston; then he studied until 1922 in Washington, D.C. both at Georgetown University and at George Washington University. In the meantime, worked Sandager 1905-1918 as a newspaper reporter. During his studies he was in Washington from 1918 to 1922 and secretary of Congressman Walter Russell Stiness. Between 1922 and 1931 Sandager was employed as an office in Providence Board (Office executive).

Politically Sandager was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1928 and 1936 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. Since 1931 he was in Cranston, where he had gone to school, resident. There he was car dealer. In 1938 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrat John Matthew O'Connell on 3 January 1939. But since he was defeated in the elections of 1940, John E. Fogarty, Sandager was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1941.

After the end of his time in the federal capital Sandager again worked as a car dealer. This profession he held until his death. In 1942, he ran unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. From 1941 to 1944 Sandager member of the Republican National Committee. He died on 24 December 1955 in his home in Cranston and was buried in Pawtucket.