Harold Earthman
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Harold Henderson Earthman (April 13, 1900 - February 26, 1987) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Earthman attended the public schools, Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin. During the First World War served in the United States Army as a private and was assigned to the Student's Army Training Corps. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and engaged in the banking business 1921-1925. He was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced the practice of law in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He resumed the study of law and was graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1927. He served in the State house of representatives in 1931 and 1932. He served as judge of Rutherford County, Tennessee from 1942 to 1945. He served as associate administrator of war bonds for the State of Tennessee 1940-1946.
Earthman was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946. He resumed the practice of law. He was owner of Earthman Enterprises. He was a resident of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, until his death there on February 26, 1987. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
