- J. Eugene Harding
John Eugene Harding (
June 27 1877 –July 26 1959 ) was a businessman and member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromOhio .Harding was born in Excello, Ohio, which is now part of Middletown, Ohio, the son of paper manufacturer Abram E. Harding and his wife Christine. He attended the public schools in nearby
Amanda Village , and the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester. He graduated from theUniversity of Michigan .He engaged in business and industrial enterprises in
Middletown, Ohio , including the family paper business, Harding Paper Company, which had a mill at Excello.He was elected member of the
Ohio Senate in 1902. In 1906 he was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress from Ohio’s Third District. He was defeated as an independent candidate in 1908. He was a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1910.Retiring from public service, he engaged in the paper business in
Chicago, Illinois , until he moved toNew York City , where he was associated with the Pure Oil Co. from 1921 to 1926. He engaged in industrial enterprises until he retired in 1949.Harding died in
New Haven, Connecticut , aged 82. He was interred in Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio.References
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