Byron B. Harlan
| Byron Berry Harlan | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Roy G. Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Harry N. Routzohn |
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October 22, 1886 Greenville, Ohio |
| Died | November 11, 1949 (aged 63) Cogan House, Pennsylvania |
| Resting place | Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sada B. Shaw |
| Children | three |
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Byron Berry Harlan (October 22, 1886 – November 11, 1949) was an attorney, prosecutor, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
Byron B. Harlan was born in Greenville, Ohio, and moved with his parents, Benjamin Berry and Margaret (Bond) Harlan, to Dayton, Ohio, when he was eight. His father was a high school teacher. Byron attended the Dayton public schools. He then attended the University of Michigan where he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity and was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from its College of Arts and Sciences in 1909 and LL. B. from its Law College in 1911. He was admitted to the Ohio bar and commenced practice in Dayton in 1911.
About 1914, Byron Berry Harlan married Sada B. Shaw (1887–1952) who was born in Canada and came to the United States when she was three years old. They had three children.
Byron Harlan was assistant prosecuting attorney of Montgomery County, Ohio, from 1912 to 1916. He served on the governing board of the Humane Society of Dayton with Harry N. Routzohn and other prominent citizens. In 1928, he became president of the Ohio Federated Humane Societies, serving in that capacity for fifteen years. In 1938, he was honorary vice president of the American Humane Association.
In 1930, Byron B. Harlan was elected as a Democrat from Ohio's Third District to the Seventy-second Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws in the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses.
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