Harry Munson was an American public official who served as a police commissioner in Los Angeles, California.

[2] In 1927 he described himself as the developer of the South Bay District of San Diego.

[3] Munson was on the Los Angeles Police Commission from August 1933 until February 1934.

According to Liberty magazine, "When Frank Shaw was running for mayor, one of his friends and stanchest supporters was a man named Harry Munson who—later testimony charged—collected 'fistfuls' of $100 bills for Shaw's campaign from the gambling czars, Guy McAfee and Bob Gans.

[5] He died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve 1946 while "walking in front of a hotel".