Jeremiah E. O'Connell

Jeremiah E. O'Connell

Jeremiah Edward O'Connell (born July 8, 1883 in Wakefield , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , †  September 18, 1964 ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1927 and again from 1929 to 1930 he represented the third constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Jeremiah O'Connell attended public schools in his home country and then studied law at Boston University, among other things. After his admission to the bar in 1907, he began practicing his new profession in Boston . A year later, he moved his residence and law firm to Providence .

Between 1913 and 1921 he was a member of the Providence City Council. O'Connell was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1922 as its candidate in the third district of Rhode Island . There he took over from the Republican Ambrose Kennedy on March 4, 1923 . After re-election in 1924, O'Connell was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1927 .

In 1926 he was defeated in the congressional elections to the Republican Louis Monast , whom he had defeated in 1924. In 1928 there was another duel between the two in the congressional elections, this time O'Connell won. He was able to move into the US House of Representatives again on March 4, 1929. On May 9, 1930, he resigned from Congress after being appointed associate judge in the Rhode Island Superior Court .

O'Connell held his new office until January 10, 1935. On that day he was appointed chairman of that court. He held this position until 1948. He was then an associate judge at the Rhode Island Supreme Court between 1948 and 1956 . He retired on January 18, 1956, which he spent in Cranston . Jeremiah O'Connell died on September 18, 1964 and was buried in Pawtucket .

Web links

• Jeremiah E. O'Connell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Jeremiah E. O'Connell in the database of Find a Grave (English)