
John William Harreld (24 January 1872-26 December 1950) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OK 5) from 8 November 1919 to 4 March 1921 (succeeding Joseph Bryan Thompson and preceding Fletcher B. Swank, as well as a US Senator from 4 March 1921 to 4 March 1927 (succeeding Thomas Gore and preceding Elmer Thomas).
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John William Harreld was born in Morgantown, Kentucky in 1872, and he became a lawyer in 1889. He served as the prosecuting attorney of Butler County from 1892 to 1896 and as a referee in bankruptcy from 1908 to 1915, when he resigned to become an oil company executive. Harreld went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921 and in the US Senate from 1921 to 1927, and he lost re-election in 1926 and died in 1950.