Harry Conrad Gahn was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

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Born in Elmore, Ohio

Elmore, Ohio

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, Gahn attended the public schools.
He taught school three years.
He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1904.
He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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Attorney for the Cleveland Legal Aid Society 1909-1911.
He served as member of the city council 1910-1921, serving as its president in 1918 and 1919.
He served as member of the Cleveland River and Harbor Commission 1911-1921.
Treasurer of the American Association of Port Authorities 1912-1919.
He was in charge of Liberty Loan campaigns in his district during the First World War.

Gahn was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-seventh

67th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth

68th United States Congress

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 Congress and for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth

75th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He resumed the practice of his profession.
He served as solicitor for Independence, Ohio from 1936 to 1956.
He died in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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, November 2, 1962.
He was interred in the Harris-Elmore Union Cemetery, Elmore

Elmore, Ohio

Elmore is a village in Ottawa and Sandusky counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 1,426 at the 2000 census.The Ottawa County portion of Elmore is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Sandusky County portion is part of the Fremont Micropolitan Statistical...

, Ottawa County, Ohio

Ottawa County, Ohio

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Gahn was a member of the Masons

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 and Knights of Pythias

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