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VINCENT F. HARRINGTON, soldier, legislator and mortgage financier, died November 29, 1943, in Rutlandshire, England, where he was on army duty, serving in the air corps with the rank of major, having resigned from duties as congressman from the Ninth Iowa district; born May 16, 1903 in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of Thomas F. Harrington and Maria O’Leary Harrington. Educated in Cathedral grammar school and Trinity College Academy, Sioux City, Iowa, and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he graduated in June 1925; associated with his father since 1927 in the Continental Mortgage Company; on June 7 that year married Cathrine O’Connor of Homer, Nebraska; was elected senator from the Thirty-second district in 1932 and became congressman in 1936, but resigned and withdrew as a candidate for re-election September 4, 1942, having joined the air forces several months previous in the air transport command.