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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriHarrison Eugene HAVENS
(1837-1916)
HAVENS, Harrison Eugene, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Franklin County, Ohio,
December 15, 1837; attended the common schools; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ohio; served as
captain of Company H, Forty-seventh Regiment, Iowa Volunteer
Infantry, in the Union Army during the Civil War; moved to
Illinois, thence to Iowa, and from there to Springfield, Mo., in
1867, becoming editor of the Springfield Patriot; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4,
1871-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures
(Forty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress and also to the State senate in
1878; superintendent of the Springfield & Western Missouri
Railway Co. in 1881; resumed the practice of his profession in
Springfield, Mo.; prosecuting attorney in 1893 and 1894; moved to
Enid, Garfield County, Okla, and engaged in newspaper pursuits
1901-1906; moved to Herradura, Cuba, and engaged in planting; died
in Havana, Cuba, where he had been taken on account of illness,
August 16, 1916; interment in Colon Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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