Edward Aloysius Kenney

Edward Aloysius Kenney (2nd from left) presenting a model airship to Congress (1937)

Edward Aloysius Kenney (born August 11, 1884 in Clinton , Worcester County , Massachusetts , †  January 27, 1938 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1938 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Kenney attended his homeland public schools including Clinton High School , which he graduated in 1902. He then studied until 1906 at Williams College in Williamstown . After a subsequent law degree at New York University and his admission to the bar in 1908, he began to work in this profession in New York City . In 1916, he moved his residence and practice to Cliffside Park , New Jersey. During the First World War in 1917 he was a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Defense Department. From 1919 to 1923 he served as a judge in Cliffside Park.

In 1922 and 1923, Kenney was chairman of the Cliffside Park Zoning Committee. In 1921 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor there as an independent. As a result, he joined the Republican Party , as a member of which he sought the mayor's office in 1923, just as unsuccessfully. Between 1925 and 1926 he was a member of the Republican District Board. Then he switched to the Democratic Party . In 1927 he ran for the third time unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Cliffside Park.

In the 1932 congressional election , Kenney was elected as a Democrat in the ninth constituency of New Jersey to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Peter Angelo Cavicchia on March 4, 1933 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 27, 1938 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. Edward Kenney was buried in his native Clinton.

Web links

• Edward Aloysius Kenney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward Aloysius Kenney in the database of Find a Grave (English)