Harold
Himmel Velde was born in Tazewell
County, Illinois, on 1st April, 1910. He graduated from North-Western
University in 1931. An athletic coach at Hillsdale Community High
School (1931-35,) he studied law at the University of Illinois before
being admitted to the bar in 1937.
During the Second World War Velde was a special
agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A member of the Republican Party,
Velde was elected to the Senate in 1949 where he served as chairman
of the Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC).
Velde retired from politics in 1956 and returned to the practice of
law in Urbana and Washington. Harold
Himmel Velde
died in Sun City, Arizona on 1st September,
1985.
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