Henry Ingraham Harriman (1873 – July 5, 1950) was an American public utility executive and President of the United States Chamber of Commerce from 1932 to 1935.
[1] He initially worked in the textile industry in Massachusetts, where he received patents for several automatic looms.
[1] He left the textile industry and engaged in the buying and selling of water rights in the Deep South before returning to the New England to build hydroelectric dams and form the New England Power Company[2] and the Connecticut River Power Company.
[8] Active in political causes, in 1937 he was appointed a delegate to the International Labour Conference (serving for many years) and the American Youth Congress.
[1] His home in Newton, the Henry I. Harriman House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.