Harry Clayton Harper was an American professional baseball pitcher, businessman, and politician.
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32 Facts About Harry Harper
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Harry Harper played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Brooklyn Robins between 1913 and 1923.
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Harry Harper invested his salaries in his business career while he was a baseball player.
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Harry Harper served in the cabinets of Governors Walter Evans Edge and Alfred E Driscoll, as the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.
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Harry Harper lost elections to the New Jersey Legislature and United States Congress.
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Harry Harper was born on April 24,1895, in Hackensack, New Jersey, to Elizabeth and Henry Clay Harry Harper.
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Harry Harper was the second of three sons born to the couple.
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Harry Harper started earning money through selling newspapers, coffee, and tea when he was ten years old.
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Harry Harper's father died when he was 13 years old, and he dropped out of school after the eighth grade to work in a factory in New York City, earning $7 per week.
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Harry Harper earned money by playing in semi-professional baseball in Hackensack.
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Harry Harper made his MLB debut for the Senators on June 27,2013, pitching three innings as a relief pitcher.
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Harry Harper played in four games during the 1913 season, with a 3.
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Harry Harper signed a contract with the Senators in 1914 that contained a clause barring him from pitching on Sundays.
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The Yankees won the American League pennant and Harry Harper started Game 6 of the 1921 World Series, but did not earn a decision.
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Harry Harper pitched for a semi-professional team in Hackensack after he was released.
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Harry Harper pitched in one game for Brooklyn before he was released, and he returned to playing semi-professional baseball.
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Harry Harper continued to pitch and manage in semi-professional baseball for a team based in Hackensack.
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Harry Harper's fiance compelled him to sell the business before they married.
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Harry Harper formed a trucking business in 1922, and requested a leave of absence from the Yankees to pursue it.
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Harry Harper expanded into construction, helped build the Holland Tunnel and moved pipe that was laid from the Catskill Mountains to New York City.
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In 1925, Harry Harper was elected president of the Hackensack chapter of the Kiwanis Club.
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Harry Harper entered local politics in 1927 with a campaign for sheriff of Bergen County as a Republican.
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Harry Harper defeated Mort O'Connell, the political boss of the Bergen County Democratic Party by around 10,000 votes.
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Harry Harper served a three-year term as sheriff, and ran in a special election for the New Jersey Senate in 1931, following the expulsion of Ralph W Chandless.
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In 1934, Governor Harold G Hoffman appointed Harper to serve on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission.
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Harry Harper remained in that role for a decade, until Governor Walter Evans Edge appointed him Commissioner of Labor and Industry in 1944.
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In 1948, Harper ran for United States Senate seat occupied by Albert W Hawkes, who was retiring, against Driscoll's wishes.
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Harry Harper faced William B Widnall, a member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
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Harry Harper became engaged to Bessie of Hackensack, daughter of Sheriff George Brewster, in October 1917.
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Later in life, Harry Harper relocated to the Layton section of Sandyston Township, New Jersey.
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Harry Harper had surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in New York, and died in the hospital on April 23,1963.
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