Harry Clifford Canfield (November 22, 1875 – February 9, 1945) was an American educator, businessman, and politician who served five terms as a

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from

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from 1923 to 1933.

Early life and career

Born near

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, Canfield attended the public schools, Moores Hill College, Central Normal College,

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, and Vorhies Business College,

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. He taught school in Dearborn County 1896-1898. He moved to Batesville, Ripley County, in 1899 and engaged in the manufacture of furniture. He was also interested in the jobbing of furniture, and in farming and banking.

Congress

Canfield was elected as a

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to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.

Later career and death

He resumed the furniture manufacturing business in

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, where he died February 9, 1945. He was interred in the First Methodist Episcopal Cemetery.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Canfield, Harry Clifford 1875 births 1945 deaths People from Batesville, Indiana Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana People from Dearborn County, Indiana People from Danville, Indiana Educators from Indiana Businesspeople from Indiana 20th-century American businesspeople Furniture manufacturers