Harry Sauthoff

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Harry Sauthoff, Sr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945
Preceded by Charles Hawks, Jr.
Succeeded by Robert Kirkland Henry
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939
Preceded by Charles W. Henney
Succeeded by Charles Hawks, Jr.
Personal details
Born June 3, 1879
Madison, Wisconsin
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Madison, Wisconsin
Political party Progressive

Harry Sauthoff, Sr. (Harry Edward Sauthoff, June 3, 1879 – June 16, 1966) was a lawyer and politician from Madison, Wisconsin. The son of a German immigrant, Sauthoff was a 1909 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. He served as district attorney of Dane County, Wisconsin from 1915 to 1919. In 1921 Sauthoff served as Secretary to Governor John J. Blaine and as a delegate to the International Conference on the St. Lawrence Deep Waterway in 1921.

Sauthoff served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1925 to 1929. In 1934 he was elected as a Progressive to the United States House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district. He served from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1939 as part of the 74th and 75th United States Congresses. He lost his reelection bid in the 1938 election. He ran again in 1940 and won, serving from January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1945 as part of the 77th and 78th Congresses. He was defeated in the 1944 election for the United States Senate, receiving 5.8 percent of the vote as a third-party candidate.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district

January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939
Succeeded by
Charles Hawks, Jr.
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district

January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945
Succeeded by
Robert Kirkland Henry


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