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WURZBACH, Harry McLeary, (uncle of Robert Christian Eckhardt),
a Representative from Texas; born in San Antonio, Tex., May 19,
1874; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the law department of
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1896; was admitted to the bar
the same year and commenced practice in San Antonio, Tex.; during the
Spanish-American War volunteered as a private in Company F, First Regiment,
Texas Volunteer Infantry; after the war moved to Seguin, Tex., in 1900 and
continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Guadalupe County
1900-1902; judge of Guadalupe County 1904-1910; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3,
1929); successfully contested the election of Augustus McCloskey to the
Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy-second Congress and served
from February 10, 1930, until his death; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1924; died in San Antonio, Tex., November 6, 1931; interment in
Military Cemetery.
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