William+Henry+Harrison


 * William Henry Harrison **
 * Republican**
 * Legislator 1945-1950**
 * US Representative 1951-1955, 1961-1965**

William Henry Harrison (great- great grandson of President William Henry Harrison and grandson of President Benjamin Harrison) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, August 10, 1896. He attended the public schools in Omaha, Nebraska, the Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., and the College of Agriculture at the University of Nebraska. During the First World War he served in the U.S. Army as a private in the Signal Enlisted Air Corps, was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1925, and practiced in Indianapolis, 1925-1936. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, 1927-1929, was admitted to the Wyoming Bar in 1937, and practiced in Sheridan. He was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, 1945-1950; secretary to the Wyoming Interim Committee, 1947-1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty Second and Eighty-Third Congresses, serving January 3, 1951-January 3, 1955. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954. He was regional administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, from April, 1955 to August 31, 1956; and liaison officer, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C. from April 1, 1957, to November 15, 1958. He later returned to Sheridan. In 1990, he passed away in Florida and is buried in Sheridan, Wyoming.


 * Additional Sources **
 * "William Henry Harrison memorial," FindAGrave.com (accessed November 2016)