Harrison H. Atwood
Harrison Henry Atwood (August 26, 1863 – October 22, 1954) was an American architect and politician who represented Boston in the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897 and for several nonconsecutive terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the Republican Party but was also supported by the Progressive Party during his later terms in the Massachusetts House.
Harrison Henry Atwood
Patrick D. Dwyer
Matthew Dolan
Joseph P. Lomasney
8th Suffolk district
Timothy J. Ahern
Sanford Bates
Charles S. Lawler
Charles S. Lawler
24th Suffolk district
Frank L. Brier
Elihu D. Stone
19th Suffolk district
Frank L. Brier
Herbert W. Burr
Charles Shulman
Bernard P. Casey
Bernard Ginsburg
19th Suffolk district
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Joseph J. Mulhern
Frank J. McFarland
17th Suffolk district
August 26, 1863
North Londonderry, Vermont, U.S.
October 22, 1954 (aged 91)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Clara Stein
Harrison Jr.
August
Architect
Biography[edit]
Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended public schools in Boston. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston. Atwood was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). Atwood defeated incumbent Democrat Michael J. McEttrick.[2] He was a member of the Republican State Committee.
Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He resumed his former profession in Boston. From 1888 to 1894 he was a member of and secretary to the Boston Republican City Committee. From 1889 to 1890 he was City Architect of Boston, designing the Bowditch School, the Congress Street Fire Station, and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station, all on the National Register of Historic Places. Atwood also designed several churches for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and then resumed his work as an architect in Boston. In April 1938, he moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
Death[edit]
Atwood died in Boston on October 22, 1954, and was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Boston.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress