Ralph Ashley Horr (August 12, 1884 – January 26, 1960) was an American politician who served as a member of the

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from 1931 to 1933. He represented the first congressional district of Washington as a Republican. A graduate of the

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and of

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, Horr ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Seattle, Washington in 1918 as a member of the Republican Party. Horr won the Republican party's nomination for the congressional seat then held by long-serving Republican John Franklin Miller in 1930. He was defeated two years later for renomination by Miller, who went on to lose the general election to Democrat

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. Horr later lost races for

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in 1934, for

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in 1936, and for mayor of Seattle in 1948.

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1884 births 1960 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Washington (state) 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Washington-politician-stub