J. Harold Flannery

John Harold Flannery (born April 19, 1898 in Pittston , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania , †  June 3, 1961 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1942 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harold Flannery attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1917 the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston . During the First World War he served in the US Army in 1917 and 1918 . After studying law at the Dickinson School of Law and his admission to the bar in 1921, he began to work in this profession in Pittston. Between 1926 and 1930 he was also the legal representative of this city; from 1932 to 1936 he served as the assistant district attorney in Luzerne County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1944 and 1960 he participated as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which Franklin D. Roosevelt and later John F. Kennedy were nominated as presidential candidates.

In the 1936 congressional election , Flannery was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Republican Charles Murray Turpin on January 3, 1937 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 3, 1942 . The Roosevelt government's last New Deal laws were passed there by 1941 . Flannery also witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the American entry into World War II as a Congressman.

Flannery's resignation came after his appointment as Appellate Judge in Lucerne County. He held this post in Bethesda until his death on June 3, 1961. He was buried in his native Pittston.

Web links

• J. Harold Flannery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles Murray Turpin	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (12th constituency) January 3, 1937 - January 3, 1942	Thomas B. Miller