John Patrick Higgins

John Patrick Higgins (born February 19, 1893 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  August 2, 1955 there ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Higgins attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Harvard University until 1917 . During the First World War he served as an ensign in the US Navy from 1917 to 1919 . Between 1919 and 1922 he worked as a chemist. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1925, he began to work in this profession in Boston. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1929 and 1934 he was an MP in the Massachusetts House of Representatives .

In the 1934 congressional election , Higgins was elected to the eleventh constituency of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John J. Douglass on January 3, 1935 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on September 30, 1937 . During this time, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

Higgins' resignation came after his appointment as presiding judge in Massachusetts Superior Court . He held this post until his death. In 1946 he also became a judge at the Tokyo International Military Tribunal during the war crimes trials there . He was released from this position by General Douglas MacArthur . He died in Boston on August 2, 1955.

Web links

• John Patrick Higgins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Patrick Higgins in the database of Find a Grave (English)