Ralph Ashley Horr an American

United States

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 politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from 1931 to 1933. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington

Washington's 1st congressional district

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 as a Republican.

Horr won the Republican party's nomination for the seat then held by long-serving Republican John Franklin Miller

John Franklin Miller (Washington representative)

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 in 1930. He was defeated two years later for renomination by Miller, who went on to lose the general election to Democrat Marion Zioncheck

Marion Zioncheck

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. Horr later lost races for United States Senate

United States Senate

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 in 1934, for governor

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 of Washington in 1936, and for mayor

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 of Seattle

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 in 1948.