Harrison H. Atwood Explained

Harrison Henry Atwood
State:Massachusetts
Term Start:March 4, 1895
Term End:March 3, 1897
Preceded:Michael J. McEttrick
Succeeded:Samuel J. Barrows
Office2:Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Term Start2:1887
Term End2:1889
Constituency2:8th Suffolk district
Preceded2:Patrick D. Dwyer
Matthew Dolan
Succeeded2:Joseph P. Lomasney
Term Start3:1915
Term End3:1915
Constituency3:24th Suffolk district
Preceded3:Timothy J. Ahern
Sanford Bates
Charles S. Lawler
Succeeded3:Charles S. Lawler
Term Start4:1917
Term End4:1918
Constituency4:19th Suffolk district
Succeeded4:Frank L. Brier
Elihu D. Stone
Term Start5:1923
Term End5:1924
Constituency5:19th Suffolk district
Preceded5:Frank L. Brier
Herbert W. Burr
Charles Shulman
Succeeded5:Bernard P. Casey
Bernard Ginsburg
Term Start6:1927
Term End6:1928
Constituency6:17th Suffolk district
Preceded6:Peter J. Fitzgerald
Joseph J. Mulhern
Succeeded6:Frank J. McFarland
Office7:5th City Architect of Boston
Term Start7:1889
Term End7:1891
Preceded7:Charles J. Bateman
Succeeded7:Edmund M. Wheelwright
Birth Date:26 August 1863
Birth Place:North Londonderry, Vermont, U.S.
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Party:Republican
Progressive
Spouse:Clara Stein
Children:Harrison Jr.
August
Profession:Architect
Footnotes:[1]

Harrison Henry Atwood (August 26, 1863 – October 22, 1954) was an American architect and politician who represented Boston in the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897 and for several nonconsecutive terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the Republican Party but was also supported by the Progressive Party during his later terms in the Massachusetts House.

Biography

Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended public schools in Boston. 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. He was a member of the Republican State Committee.

Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He resumed his former profession in Boston. From 1888 to 1894 he was a member of and secretary to the Boston Republican City Committee. From 1889 to 1890 he was City Architect of Boston, designing 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.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, and then resumed his work as an architect in Boston. In April 1938, he moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.

Death

Atwood died in Boston on October 22, 1954, and was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Boston.

See also

References

  1. Book: Who's Who in State Politics . 1915 . Practical Politics . Boston .

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