William H. Harries

William Henry Harries ( * January 15, 1843 in Dayton, Ohio; † July 23, 1921 in Seattle, Washington ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Harries joined at the beginning of the Civil War in the Union army. By April 1866, he remained in military service. He rose to become captain. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1868 admitted to the bar he began in Hokah (Minnesota) to work in his new profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to Caledonia.

Between 1874 and 1878 was Harries district attorney in Houston County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was the first electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Mark H. Dunnell on March 4, 1891. But since he Republican James Albertus Tawney defeated in the following election in 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Harries was appointed in Minnesota by President Grover Cleveland to head the federal tax authority. This post he held 1894-1898. He officiated in Saint Paul. Then he returned to Caledonia, where he worked as a lawyer again. In 1901 he took over the chairmanship in Minnesota State of Civil War veterans association Grand Army of the Republic. 1903 Harries was a board member of the Veterans Homes of Minnesota. Later he was employed as a secretary in the administration from 1907 to 1911. Eventually, he became its director. This function exercised Harries from 1911-1918. He died on 23 July 1921 in Seattle and was buried in Caledonia.