Harry Luther Gandy Biography


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GANDY, Harry Luther, a Representative from South Dakota; born in 
Churubusco, Whitley County, Ind., August 13, 1881; attended the public 
schools; was graduated from Tri-State College, Angola, Ind., in	1901; 
moved to Rapid City, Pennington County, S. Dak., in 1907; publisher 
of the Wasta (S. Dak.) Gazette 1910-1918; United States comnisasioner 
at Wasta, member of the State senate in 1911; appointed by President 
Wilson as receiver of public moneys of the office at Rapid City and 
served from July 16, 1913, to March 3, 1915; elected as a Democrat to 
the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-
March 3, 1921); unsuccessfulcandidate for reelection in 1920 to the 
Sixty-seventh Congress; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the 
raising of livestock near Wasta, S. Dak., 1910-1945; executive secretary 
of the National Coal Association, Washington, D. C. 1923-1930; connected 
with subsidiary companies of the Pittston Co., 1930-1937; chairman 
Bituminous Coal Producers Board, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1937-1940; assistant 
to the president, Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. and Buffalo Creek & Gauley 
Railroad Co., Widen, W. Va., from 1944 until his retirement; died in Los 
Gatos, Calif., August 15,1957; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, 
Rapid City, S. Dak.