Henry McMorran

Henry Gordon McMorran ( born June 11, 1844 in Port Huron, Michigan, † July 19, 1929 ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry McMorran visited the Crawford Private School and has been since 1865 in the wholesale trade. He also participated in the grain trade and the mill business. Later, he also dealt with in the industry, the elevators producing and selling.

In addition to his business activities McMorran began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1867 he was elected to the Municipal Council of Port Huron; In 1875 he was treasurer of this place. From 1878 to 1889 he was manager of the railway company Port Huron & Northwestern Railway. He also sat in the state of Michigan Canal Commission. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the seventh election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edgar Weeks on March 4, 1903. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. From 1907 to 1911 he was chairman of the Craft Committee.

1912 renounced McMorran on another candidacy for Congress. In the years after his retirement from the House of Representatives he was visiting different industries operate. He was founder and president of the Great Lakes Foundry Co., Henry McMorran died on 19 July 1929 in his hometown of Port Huron.

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