George D. O'Brien

George D. O'Brien

George Donoghue O'Brien (born January 1, 1900 in Detroit , Michigan , †  October 25, 1957 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1955 he represented the state of Michigan three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George O'Brien attended public schools in his home country. During the First World War , in which the United States participated since April 1917, he was a soldier in the Students' Training Corps , a training unit of the US Army . After his military service, O'Brien studied at the University of Detroit until 1921 . After a subsequent law degree at this university and his admission as a lawyer in 1924, he began to work in Detroit in his new profession.

Politically, O'Brien was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1936 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the 13th  constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded Republican Clarence J. McLeod , whom he defeated in the election, on January 3, 1937 . Since he lost to McLeod in the subsequent elections in 1938, he was initially only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1939 , during which further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government.

In the congressional elections of 1940 O'Brien was re-elected to Congress against McLeod, where he could spend three more terms after two re-elections between January 3, 1941 and January 3, 1947. The Second World War and its immediate aftermath fell during this period . From 1945 to 1947 O'Brien was chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads . In 1944 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the fourth and final time as a presidential candidate.

In 1946 he was defeated by Republican Howard A. Coffin in the elections . In the elections of 1948 George O'Brien managed again in the 13th district to enter the US House of Representatives, in which he could remain after two re-elections between January 3, 1949 and January 3, 1955. During this time, among other things, the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement fell . In 1954, O'Brien was not nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years he was an Assistant Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia . He held this office until his death on October 25, 1957 in Washington.

Web links

• George D. O'Brien in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George D. O'Brien in the database of Find a Grave (English)