Harry W. Musselwhite

Harry Webster Musselwhite (* May 23, 1868 in Coldwater, Michigan, † December 14, 1955 in San Lorenzo, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Musselwhite attended the common schools including High School in Coldwater. He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. From 1886 to 1888 he worked as a printer in this city. In 1888 he moved to Detroit, where he worked as a newspaper reporter until 1905. Between 1905 and 1914 he wrote for the local and sport part of " Grand Rapids Herald " in Grand Rapids. After a move to Manistee he was from 1915 to 1928 the owner and editor of the newspaper " Manistee Daily News - Advocate ." In the years 1920 and 1930 Musselwhite led the Census Bureau in the ninth and the fourth census district of the State of Michigan. From 1927 to 1932 he served as Vice Chairman of the Hospital Commission of his state.

Politically Musselwhite was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the ninth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime deceased Republican James C. McLaughlin on March 4, 1933. This election victory was in the then federal trend in favor of the Democratic Party. Since he lost in 1934 to Albert J. Engel, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution in force which was still decided in the previous legislative period came. By this law, including the beginning of the legislative sessions of Congress has been brought forward to January 3. While Musselwhite time as congressman of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was adopted there, who picked up the 18th Amendment in 1919. It was about the Prohibition law. It was then that the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were discussed and approved in Congress.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Harry sat Musselwhite until his retirement in his journalistic work continues. He died on 14 December 1955 in San Lorenzo.

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