John W. Flannagan

John William Flannagan Jr. (born February 20, 1885 in Trevilians , Louisa County , Virginia , †  April 27, 1955 in Bristol , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1949 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Flannagan attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and his admission as a lawyer in 1907, he began to work in Appalachia in this profession. From 1916 to 1917 he was a district attorney in Buchanan County . He moved to Clintwood in 1917 and to Bristol in 1925. He practiced as a lawyer in both places. Between 1917 and 1930 he was also active in the banking industry. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1930 congressional election , Flannagan was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded Joseph Crockett Shaffer on March 4, 1931 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there from 1933 . Since 1941 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. From 1943 to 1947 Flannagan was chairman of the Agriculture Committee. In 1948 he renounced another candidacy.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, John Flannagan returned to work as a lawyer. He died on April 27, 1955 in Bristol, where he was also buried.

Web links

• John W. Flannagan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)