Arthur Daniel Healey

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Arthur Daniel Healey (1939)

Arthur Daniel Healey (born December 29, 1889 in Somerville , Massachusetts , † September 16, 1948 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1933 and 1942 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives ; then he became a federal judge .

Career

Arthur Healey attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1908 the Somerville Latin School . In 1909 and 1910 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). After a subsequent law degree at Boston University and his admission to the bar in 1914, he began to work in this profession in Boston . During the First World War , Healey was a lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps of the US Army between 1917 and 1919 . Politically, he joined the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1932 Healey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Frederick W. Dallinger, who had since stepped down, on March 4, 1933 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on August 3, 1942 . During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . Arthur Healey was instrumental in one of the New Deal laws, the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act , passed in 1936 . This regulates the working conditions for employees of contractual partners of the Federal Government. In 1938 he became a member of the then newly created committee for un-American activities .

Healey's resignation came after he was appointed to succeed the retired Elisha Hume Brewster as a judge in the Massachusetts Federal District Court . He held this office until his death on December 16, 1948 in Somerville.

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SURNAME Healey, Arthur Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Somerville , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1948
Place of death Somerville , Massachusetts