Harry C. Canfield
U.S. Congressperson
1875 – 1945
Who was Harry C. Canfield?
Harry Clifford Canfield was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born near Moores Hill, Indiana, Canfield attended the public schools, Moores Hill College, Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana, and Vorhies Business College, Indianapolis, Indiana. He taught school in Dearborn County 1896-1898. He moved to Batesville, Ripley County, in 1899 and engaged in the manufacture of furniture. He was also interested in the jobbing of furniture, and in farming and banking.
Canfield was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932. He resumed the furniture manufacturing business in Batesville, Indiana, where he died February 9, 1945. He was interred in the First Methodist Episcopal Cemetery.
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1875
- Also known as
- Harry Canfield
- Died
- Feb 9, 1945
Batesville
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on July 23, 2013
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