Daniel J. Griffin

Daniel J. Griffin

Daniel Joseph Griffin (born March 26, 1880 in Brooklyn , New York , † December 11, 1926 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1912 and 1918 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Joseph Griffin was in the year of death of Victorio , a leader of the Chiricahua - Apache born in the then independent city of Brooklyn. In the following time he attended Parochial Schools in Brooklyn, St. Laurent College near Montreal ( Canada ) and St. Peter's College (now Saint Peter's University ) in Jersey City . He then graduated from New York Law School . He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1903 and 1906 he was Commissioner of Licenses in the Borough of Brooklyn. He then had between 1906 and 1912 the line of the administrative and guardianship departments at the Guardianship Court ( Surrogate's Court ) in Kings County . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In 1912 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore .

In the 1912 congressional election for the 63rd Congress , Griffin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Daniel J. Riordan on March 4, 1913 . He was re-elected twice in a row, but announced his resignation on December 31, 1917. As a congressman, he chaired the Military Affairs Committee .

After his time in Congress, he was elected Sheriff of Kings County in 1918 and 1919 . Then he worked as a lawyer again. He died on December 11, 1926 in Brooklyn and was buried there in Holy Cross Cemetery .

Web links

• Daniel J. Griffin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel J. Griffin in the database of Find a Grave (English)