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Harrison Henry Atwood

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Preceded by
  
Michael J. McEttrick

Role
  
U.S. representative

Political party
  
Republican

Spouse
  
Clara Stein


Profession
  
Architect

Party
  
Republican Party

Name
  
Harrison Atwood

Succeeded by
  
Samuel J. Barrows


Children
  
Harrison Henry Atwood, Jr., August Stein Atwood

Died
  
October 22, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Harrison Henry Atwood (August 26, 1863 – October 22, 1954) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1896, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928.

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Biography

Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston. Atwood was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). Atwood defeated incumbent Democrat Michael J. McEttrick.

Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He resumed his former profession in Boston. He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He resumed his profession as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, in April 1938. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1954. He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery.

Timeline

  • 1887-89 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the Eighth Suffolk district
  • 1887-89 Member of the Republican State Committee.
  • 1888-94 Member and secretary of the Boston Republican City Committee.
  • 1888 and 1892 Delegate to the Republican National Convention.
  • 1889-90 City Architect of Boston, designed the Bowditch School, the Congress Street Fire Station, and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station, all on the National Register of Historic Places. Atwood also designed several churches for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

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