Edwin B. Dooley

Edwin B. Dooley

Edwin Benedict Dooley (born April 13, 1905 in New York City , † January 25, 1982 in Boca Raton , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1963 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Dooley was born in Brooklyn about nine years before the outbreak of World War I. He graduated from St. John's Prep School . He made his Bachelor of Arts in 1927 at Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ) and 1930 his Bachelor of Laws at Fordham University Law School in New York City. Between 1927 and 1938 he worked as a columnist for the New York Sun . He also started working for the New York City Radio in 1936 - a position he held until 1948. Between 1938 and 1955 he worked as a PR clerk. During the Second World War he served on the Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of War Food Committees . He was also a trustee in the Village of Mamaroneck between 1942 and 1946 . Then he was a member of the Institute of Public Relations between 1946 and 1948 . Between 1950 and 1956 he was mayor of Mamaroneck. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the 1956 congressional elections for the 85th Congress , Dooley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 26th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Ralph A. Gamble on January 4, 1957 . He was re-elected twice in a row. 1962 he was defeated in his re-re-election bid and was eliminated from the after January 3, 1963 Congress of.

After his time at the congress he went back to public relations . Between 1966 and 1975 he chaired the New York State Athletic Commission . He lived in Boca Raton until his death on January 25, 1982. His body was cremated and the ashes were then scattered in the family burial site at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne .

Web links

• Edwin B. Dooley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edwin B. Dooley in the database of Find a Grave (English)