Harry Sandager (April 12, 1887 – December 24, 1955) was a

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from

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Biography

Harry Sandager was born in

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on April 12, 1887. He attended the public schools of Cranston, Rhode Island. He was a newspaper reporter from 1905–1918 and Secretary to Congressman Walter R. Stiness from 1918 to 1922. Sandager received a

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degree from

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in 1922, and a Bachelor of Foreign Service degree from

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in 1923. After graduation, he returned to Providence. From 1922 to 1931 he was an executive with D. W. Flint, the operator of Ford and Lincoln automobile and Fordson tractor dealerships throughout

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. He was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1928 and served until 1936. He operated his own Ford dealership in Cranston beginning in 1931.National Automobile Dealers Association
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Volume 27, 1955, page 18 Sandager was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. He returned to his auto dealership, and served as member of the

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from 1941 to 1944. Sandager died in Cranston on December 24, 1955, and was interred at St. Francis Cemetery,

Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls ...

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