J. Eugene Harding
John Eugene Harding was a businessman and one-term member of the United States [House of Representatives] from Ohio from 1907 to 1909.Harding was born in Excello, Ohio, the son of paper manufacturer Abram E. Harding and his wife Christine. He attended the public schools in nearby Amanda Village, and the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
He engaged in business and industrial enterprises in Middletown, Ohio, including the family paper business, Harding Paper Company, which had a mill at Excello.Congress
He was elected member of the Ohio Senate in 1902. In 1906 he was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth [United States Congress|Sixtieth Congress] from United States [House of Representatives, Ohio District 3|Ohio's Third District]. He was defeated as an independent candidate in 1908. He was a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1910.Later career
Retiring from public service, he engaged in the paper business in Chicago, Illinois, until he moved to New York City, where he was associated with the Pure Oil Co. from 1921 to 1926. He engaged in industrial enterprises until he retired in 1949.Death and burial
Harding died in New Haven, Connecticut, aged 82. He was interred in Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio.