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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaForest Arthur HARNESS
(1895-1974)
HARNESS, Forest Arthur, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Kokomo, Howard County, Ind.,
June 24, 1895; attended the public schools and was graduated from
the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in
1917; served overseas as a first lieutenant, Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Infantry, 1917-1919; awarded the Purple Heart; captain,
Infantry Reserve, United States Army, 1920-1949; admitted to the
District of Columbia bar in 1917, to the Indiana bar in 1919, and
commenced practice in Kokomo, Ind.; prosecuting attorney of Howard
County, Ind., 1920-1924; special assistant to the Attorney General
of the United States from 1931 to 1935 when he resigned to resume
private practice; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and
to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3,
1949); chairman, Select Committee on the Federal Communications
Commission (Eightieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed the
practice of law; Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate from
January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1955; retired in 1960 and resided in
Sarasota, Fla., where he died, July 29, 1974; entombment in the
mausoleum at Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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