Harry Welles Rusk

Harry Welles Rusk ( born October 17, 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 28, 1926 ) was an American politician. Between 1886 and 1897 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Rusk attended private schools and then studied until 1866 at the Baltimore City College. After a subsequent law studies at the School of Law of the University of Maryland and his 1873 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1876 and 1882 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland; 1884 and 1886 he was a member of the State Senate. In July 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Mr William Hinson Cole Rusk was at the due election for the third seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 6, 1886. After five elections he could remain until March 3, 1897 Congress. From 1891 to 1895 Rusk was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. In 1896 he gave up another candidacy.

Between 1898 and 1908 Harry Rusk was chairman of the Democratic Party in Baltimore. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 28, 1926 in his hometown of Baltimore.