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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasHarry McLeary WURZBACH
(1874-1931)
WURZBACH, Harry McLeary,
(uncle of Robert Christian Eckhardt), a Representative from Texas;
born in San Antonio, Tex., May 19, 1874; attended the public
schools, and was graduated from the law department of Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1896; was admitted to the
bar the same year and commenced practice in San Antonio, Tex.;
during the Spanish-American War volunteered as a private in Company
F, First Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry; after the war moved to
Seguin, Tex., in 1900 and continued the practice of law;
prosecuting attorney of Guadalupe County 1900-1902; judge of
Guadalupe County 1904-1910; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1921-March 3, 1929); successfully contested the election of
Augustus McCloskey to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the
Seventy-second Congress and served from February 10, 1930, until
his death; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924;
died in San Antonio, Tex., November 6, 1931; interment in Military
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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