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Harry L. Towe






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Harry L. Towe
Asbury Park Press, February 13, 1948
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 9th district
In office
January 3, 1943 – September 7, 1951
Preceded byFrank C. Osmers Jr.
Succeeded byFrank C. Osmers Jr.
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
In office
1941–1942
Personal details
Born

Harry Lancaster Towe


(1898-11-03)November 3, 1898
Jersey City, New Jersey
DiedFebruary 4, 1991(1991-02-04) (aged 92)
Tenafly, New Jersey
Political partyRepublican

Harry Lancaster Towe (November 3, 1898 in Jersey City, New Jersey – February 4, 1991 in Tenafly, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for four terms from 1943 to 1951.

Early life and career[edit]

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, November 3, 1898, Towe attended the public schools of Passaic, New Jersey. He attended the United States Naval Academy from 1918 to 1920 and graduated from New Jersey Law School at Newark in 1925.

He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Rutherford, New Jersey. Towe was United States commissioner from 1929 to 1931 and special assistant attorney general of New Jersey from 1931 to 1934. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1941 and 1942.

Congress[edit]

Towe was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation September 7, 1951, to become an assistant attorney general of New Jersey, in which capacity he served until October 31, 1953.

Later career and death[edit]

He engaged in the practice of law in Hackensack, New Jersey and was secretary and general counsel of the publishing firm of Medical Economics, Inc. from 1960 to 1969. He lived in Rutherford and was a resident of the Smoke Rise section of Kinnelon, New Jersey, until his death on February 4, 1991, at his home in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.[1][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Harry L. Towe, at 92, had served in Congress", Asbury Park Press, February 10, 1991. Accessed May 19, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "He was born in Jersey City, lived in Rutherford and Smoke Rise, before moving to Lakewood three years ago."
  • ^ Staff. "Harry L. Towe, 92, A Former Congressman", The New York Times, February 10, 1991. Accessed November 19, 2017. "Harry Lancaster Towe, a former Congressman and deputy attorney general of New Jersey, died on Friday at his home in Lakewood, N.J. He was 92 years old."
  • External links[edit]

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    Preceded by

    Frank C. Osmers Jr.

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
    from New Jersey's 9th congressional district

    January 3, 1943-September 7, 1951
    Succeeded by

    Frank C. Osmers Jr.


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