Velde, Harold Himmel, 1910-1985

LC control no.	n 88120806
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Velde, Harold Himmel, 1910-1985 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	19100401
Death date	19850901
Place of birth	Tazewell County (Ill.)
Place of death	Sun City (Ariz.)
Affiliation	United States. Army. Signal Corps United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation United States. Congress. House
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Legislators--United States
Found in	NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Daschbach, J.S. Papers, 1941-1955 (Velde hearings) Sanders, Cold war on the campus, p. 123 (in spring 1954 House Un-American Activities Comm. under chairman Harold Velde visited Seattle for purpose of taking testimony concerning Communist party activities in Pacific Northwest) Biog. direct. Amer. Cong. (Velde, Harold Himmel, b. 4/1/1910; rep. from Ill., 1949-1957) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, February 5, 2014 (Velde, Harold Himmel (1910-1985); a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm near Parkland, Tazewell County, Ill., April 1, 1910; attended rural grade and high schools; student at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., 1927-1929; was graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1931 and from the University of Illinois Law School at Champaign in 1937; athletic coach and teacher of Hillsdale (Ill.) Community High School, 1931-1935; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced the practice of law in Pekin, Ill.; served as a private in the Signal Corps of the United States Army in 1942 and 1943; special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in sabotage and counter-espionage division, 1943-1946; elected county judge of Tazewell County in 1946 and served until 1949; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on Un-American Activities (Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1956; engaged in the practice of law in Urbana, Ill., and Washington, D.C., until May 5, 1969; became regional counsel, General Services Administration, Lansing, Ill., in 1969; was a resident of Sun City, Ariz., from 1974 until his death there September 1, 1985; cremated; ashes interred, Pekin, Ill.)
Associated language	eng