John W. Harreld

Harreld was born in Butler County, Kentucky, near Morgantown to Martha Helm and Thomas Nelson Harreld.Kosmerick, Todd J., "[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HA031.html Harreld, John William] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717234912/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HA031.html |date=2010-07-17 }}," [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416084151/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia |date=2009-04-16 }} (accessed May 21, 2010). He attended public schools, the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and Bryant & Stratton Business College of Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught while studying law.{{where|date=September 2014}}[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000227 Congressional Biography: Harreld, John William] (accessed May 21, 2010). Admitted to the bar in 1889, he begin his practice in Morgantown. He was prosecuting attorney of Butler County from 1892 to 1896. After marrying Laura Ward on October 20, 1889, and having a son, Ward, he moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1906. He was a referee in bankruptcy from 1908 to 1915, when he resigned to become an executive with an oil corporation. He moved to Oklahoma City in 1917 and engaged in the production of oil and continued the practice of law. After his first wife's death, he married his wife's sister, Thurlow Ward, in 1931.

Harreld was elected, on November 8, 1919, as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph B. Thompson and served from November 8, 1919, to March 4, 1921. He was not a candidate for renomination, having become a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator; he was elected to the Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 4, 1927; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926. He served as Senate chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and returned to Oklahoma City, where he continued the practice of law and his interest in the oil business.

He died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1950, and was interred in Fairlawn Cemetery.

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• [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HA031.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Harreld, John] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717234912/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HA031.html |date=2010-07-17 }}
• [https://arc.ou.edu/repositories/3/resources/17 John W. Harreld Collection] at the Carl Albert Center

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