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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaCecil Murray HARDEN
(1894-1984)
HARDEN, Cecil Murray, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Covington, Fountain County,
Ind., November 21, 1894; graduated from the public schools of
Covington, Ind., 1912; attended the University of Indiana,
Bloomington, Ind.; teacher; Republican National committeewoman from
Indiana, 1944-1959, 1964-1972; delegate at large to the Republican
National Conventions in 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1968; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958;
special assistant for women’s affairs to Postmaster General,
Washington, D.C., March 1959 to March 1961; member, National
Advisory Committee for the White House Conference on Aging,
1972-1973; died on December 5, 1984, in Lafayette, Ind.
Bibliography
”Cecil Murray Harden” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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