Harrison Henry Atwood was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 in 1896, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928.

Biography

Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston. Atwood was elected as a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 to the Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: Adlai E. Stevenson * President pro tempore: William P. Frye - Majority leadership :* Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman- Minority leadership :...

 Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897). Atwood defeated incumbent Democrat Michael J. McEttrick

Michael J. McEttrick

Michael Joseph McEttrick was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.McEttrick was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he graduated from the Washington Grammar and the Roxbury Latin Schools.He became a journalist....

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Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

 Congress. He resumed his former profession in Boston. He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...

 in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He resumed his profession as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts.
He moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, in April 1938.
He died in Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1954.
He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery

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Timeline

• 1887-89 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
  Massachusetts House of Representatives
  The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...
  
   representing the Eighth Suffolk district
• 1887-89 Member of the Republican State Committee.
• 1888-94 Member and secretary of the Boston Republican City Committee.
• 1888 and 1892 Delegate to the Republican National Convention.
• 1889-90 City Architect of Boston, designed the Bowditch School
  Bowditch School
  Bowditch School is an historic school at 80—82 Green Street in Boston, Massachusetts.The school was designed by Harrison H. Atwood in 1892, while he was architect of the City of Boston, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990....
  
  , the Congress Street Fire Station
  Congress Street Fire Station
  Congress Street Fire Station is an historic fire station at 344 Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts.The station was designed by Harrison H. Atwood in 1891 and added to the National Historic Register in 1987. It now serves as the Boston Fire Museum....
  
  , and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station
  Harvard Avenue Fire Station
  Harvard Avenue Fire Station is a historic site on 16 Harvard Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.The station was designed in 1891 by Harrison H. Atwood, who also designed the Congress Street Fire Station, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983....
  
  , all on the National Register of Historic Places
  National Register of Historic Places
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  . Atwood also designed several churches for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 designed by H.H. Atwood