Harry N. Routzohn
| Harry Nelson Routzohn | |
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in Washington, D.C., December 11, 1939
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd district |
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In office January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941 |
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| Preceded by | Byron B. Harlan |
| Succeeded by | Greg J. Holbrock |
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November 4, 1881 Dayton, Ohio |
| Died | April 14, 1953 (aged 71) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Laura Eleanor Poock |
| Children | four |
Harry Nelson Routzohn (November 4, 1881 – April 14, 1953) was an attorney, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
Routzohn was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Henry and Mary Routzohn. Henry was a teamster man from Maryland. Harry Routzohn attended the Dayton public grade schools. He apprenticed one year at the blacksmith trade and then became a court page in Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio. About 1902, Harry Nelson Routzohn married Laura Eleanor Poock; they had four children. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1904, hanging out his shingle in Dayton.
In 1902, Harry Routzohn was one of the founders of the Humane Society of Dayton, the second oldest humane organization in Ohio and one of the oldest in the nation. He served on the governing board with Byron B. Harlan and other prominent Daytonians.
Harry Routzohn became assistant county prosecutor of Montgomery County in 1906 serving for three years. In 1917, he became a probate judge, in which position he served for twelve years until 1929. While on the court, he taught law at the University of Dayton from 1923 to 1930. Routzohn was a captain in the Officers’ Reserve Corps from 1925 to 1935.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932. In 1928, he broke with the Ohio delegation, which announced prior to the convention its intention to support favorite son Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio. Routzohn announced that he would start a movement in behalf of Herbert Hoover in the Third Ohio District on the grounds that the State Committee usurped authority in endorsing Willis to the exclusion of all others. In 1930, he was appointed assistant United States district attorney by President Hoover and served until the election of Roosevelt in 1932.
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