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Solid Texas. What sent the Congressman of the 15th district up to the Speakership were last week's elective doings in the 14th district, running from above San Antonio to the Gulf at Corpus Christi. Until his death last month Republican Congressman Harry McLeary Wurzbach had, sheerly by personal popularity, carried the 14th around in his pocket for eleven years (TIME, Nov. 16). To fill his vacancy a special election was called. Democratic leaders raged in despair when six of their party rushed into the contest against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware...
...fact, 169 due to the death of Representative Wurzbach...
Death in Texas. A lone Republican from the Lone Star State was Representative Harry McLeary Wurzbach. Immense personal popularity in Guadalupe County kept him in the House despite the opposition of the local Republican machine. Last week Congressman Wurzbach underwent an appendectomy, died suddenly. Thirty days after executive proclamation a special election will be held to fill his empty seat but Democrats were confident that they could replace him with one of their own. thereby adding another much-needed vote to their House strength. If they did, they would have a clean 218 majority...
Died. Harry McLeary Wurzbach, 57, U. S. Representative from the 14th Texas District; after an appendectomy; in San Antonio...
...Adopted a resolution unseating Augustus McCloskey, Democrat, seating Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican, as representative from the 14th Texas district, following an election contest...