Jerome F. Donovan

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Jerome F. Donovan

Jerome Francis Donovan (born February 1, 1872 in New Haven , Connecticut , † November 2, 1949 in Stony Creek , Connecticut) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1918 and 1921 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jerome Francis Donovan was born in New Haven County about seven years after the Civil War ended . He attended public schools. He then studied law and graduated from the law school of Yale University in 1894 . He began practicing in New Haven after receiving his license to practice the same year. Between 1897 and 1903 he served in Company C in the Connecticut National Guard's 2nd  Regiment . During this time he was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1901 to 1903 . He also became an auditor in New Haven in 1902 - an occupation he held until 1904. He was Secretary of the New Haven Civil Service Commission between 1904 and 1906 . In 1910 he moved to New York City , where he was admitted to the bar in New York that same year. He served as Special Deputy Attorney General in New York between 1911 and 1913 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

He was elected to the 65th Congress in 1918 in a by-election in the 21st  constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of George Murray Hulbert . His term began on March 5, 1918. He was re-elected once. In his second re-election bid in 1920 , he was defeated and withdrew from the after March 3, 1921 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he was Deputy Attorney General in the New York State Labor Department in 1923 and 1924 . He then went back to his practice as a lawyer in New York City, which he practiced until his retirement in 1936. He moved to Stony Creek, where he died on November 2, 1949. At that point, World War II was over for about four years. His body was then interred in St. Bernard's Cemetery in New Haven.

Web links

  • Jerome F. Donovan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)