John J. O'Connor (politician)

John J. O'Connor

John Joseph O'Connor (born November 23, 1885 in Raynham , Massachusetts , † January 26, 1960 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1923 and 1939 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Joseph O'Connor attended public schools. He graduated in 1908 at Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Iceland ) and 1911 at the Law Department of Harvard University . He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1910. In 1911 he moved to New York City . He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1912 and began practicing afterwards. In 1915 he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly as Secretary of the Democratic Party . Between 1920 and 1923 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . During that time he was Legislative Secretary on the Child Welfare Commission in 1921 and 1922 . He then held the post of Vice-Chairman of the Legislative Committee on the Exploitation of Immigrants in 1922 and 1923 . He was also a member of the Legislative Committee on the Revision of the Corporation Laws in New York in 1922 and 1923 . O'Connor took part as a delegate at all New York State and County Conventions between 1919 and 1938 and as a delegate (at-large) at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 1936 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

O'Connor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in a by-election on November 6, 1923 in the 16th electoral district of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of William Bourke Cockran . He was re-elected six times in a row. He then suffered a defeat in his Democratic nomination, but won the Republican one . In the following congressional elections in 1938 for the 76th Congress , he went out of the running as a loser and retired as a result of it after January 3, 1939 from Congress . As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Rules ( 74th and 75th Congress ).

After his time in Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer in New York City and Washington DC. On January 26, 1960, he died in Washington DC and was in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring ( Maryland buried).

Web links

• John J. O'Connor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John J. O'Connor in the database of Find a Grave (English)