John J. Delaney

John J. Delaney

John Joseph Delaney (* 21st August 1878 in Brooklyn , New York ; † 18th November 1948 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of New York for many years in the US House of Representatives represented.

Life

After attending St. Ann's Parochial School , the St. James' Academy in Brooklyn and Manhattan College in New York City , he worked as a merchant in the diamond trade worked before he later studying law at the Law School of the St. Lawrence University completed. After being admitted to the bar, he took up a practice as a lawyer in New York City in 1915 .

In an account of the resignation of John Joseph Fitzgerald made necessary by-election , he was elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party as a member of the US House of Representatives and was this for the seventh  congressional district of New York first of March 5, 1918 to March 3, 1919. 1918 he decided not to run again and instead resumed his work as a lawyer. In both 1922 and 1924 he was a member of the Democratic State Conventions in New York. He was then from 1924 to 1931 Deputy Commissioner ( Deputy Commissioner ) for the public markets of New York City.

After the death of the already elected, but not sworn in, Matthew Vincent O'Malley , Delaney was re-elected as representative of the 7th New York congressional electoral district in the US House of Representatives and belonged to it after eight subsequent re-elections from November 3, 1931 until his death. After his death he was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn. He was succeeded as Congressman by Louis B. Heller .

Web links

• John J. Delaney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)