Biography

05/19/1869 - 11/30/1938

Harvey D. Huffman (D14) Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties 1911-1914 (D14) Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties 1923-1930 (D14) Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties 1935-1936

Early Life:

Harvey D. Huffman, born May 19, 1869, Marshall’s Creek, Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; son of Elias Detrick Huffman and Elizabeth Smith Huffman; common school education; Kutztown Normal School, 1892; read law, law degree, University of Pennsylvania; admitted, Monroe County bar, 1896; member, law firm, Ellenberger and Huffman, corporation attorney; chairman, Monroe County Democrat Committee; Monroe County Solicitor; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1911-1914; lawyer, Railroads; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1923-1926; reelected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1927-1930; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1935-1936; owner, lived at Marshall Creek Hotel; bachelor; died, November 30, 1938 (aged 69) Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interment, Saint Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Marshalls Creek, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. 

Early Life:

Read law under the Honorable John B. Storm of Stroudsburg; corporate lawyer, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Lackawanna, Western, Erie Railroads.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Director, Stroudsburg Security Trust Company; solicitor, East Stroudsburg National Bank.   

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties, 1911-1914; committee assignments, Corporations, Forestry, Judiciary General, Legislative Apportionment, Public Roads and Highways, Railroads. unsuccessful reelection, William Pethick. 

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties, 1923-1926; committee assignments, Appropriations, Banks and Building and Loan Associations, Canals and Inland Navigation, Forestry, Judicial Apportionment, Judiciary General, Mines and Mining, Pensions and Gratuities, Public Roads and Highways, Railroads.

Reelected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties, 1927-1930.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Monroe, Carbon, Pike, and Wayne Counties, 1935-1936; elected, President Pro Tempore, first Democratic President Pro Tempore, Albert Gallatin Brodhead, 1871, (68 years); ex-officio all senate committees. Death occurred on the final day of democratic control of the upper house. The Monroe Record noted “it seems appropriate in a way that these two stars should set at the same time.”  Defeated reelection, Montgomery F. Crowe. 

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members H". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1914). Miller, H.P., (Compiler). Baker, W.H., (Assistant Compiler). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1090, 1097-1100, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1070.

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1923-1924). Whitmore, R.E., (Compiler). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 983, 989, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 962.

Standard-Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) Thursday December 1, 1938, Page 3.

Harvey Huffman (1869-1938) - Find a Grave Memorial