James J. Heffernan

James J. Heffernan (1951)

James Joseph Heffernan (born November 8, 1888 in Brooklyn , New York , † January 27, 1967 in Long Branch , New Jersey ) was an American architect and politician . Between 1941 and 1953 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Joseph Heffernan was born in November 1888 in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public and private schools. He then graduated from Bryant Stratton College in 1906 and the Pratt Institute in 1908 . He then worked as an architect in 1908. Between 1926 and 1933 he was Commissioner of Highways in Brooklyn. In 1938 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1940 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Marcellus H. Evans on January 4, 1941 . After a successful re-election, he ran for a seat in Congress in the eleventh constituency of New York. Heffernan then took over from Ellsworth B. Buck on January 4, 1945 . He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he on a run again in 1952 renounced, he left the after January 3, 1953 Congress of.

Then he worked as an architect. He died on January 27, 1967 in Long Branch and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery , Brooklyn.

Web links

• James J. Heffernan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James J. Heffernan in the database of Find a Grave (English)