Harry Irving THAYER, Congress, MA (1869-1926)

THAYER Harry Irving , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Mass., September 10, 1869; attended the public schools of Hanover, Mass.; engaged in the leather business; organizer and president of the Thayer-Ross Co.; president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association 1916-1921; was president of the Tanners' Council of the United States in 1920 and 1921; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Wakefield, Middlesex County, Mass., March 10, 1926; interment in Lakeside Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present