Joseph E. Casey

Joseph E. Casey (1940)

Joseph Edward Casey (born December 27, 1898 in Clinton , Worcester County , Massachusetts , †  September 1, 1980 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Casey attended public schools in his home country. In 1918 he was a United States Army soldier at Camp Lee, Virginia . After a subsequent law degree at Boston University and his admission to the bar in 1920, he began to work in this profession in Clinton. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1924 and 1944 he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions with one exception in 1928 .

In the 1934 congressional election , Casey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Massachusetts, where he succeeded Frank H. Foss on January 3, 1935 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . By 1941, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . In 1942 Casey decided not to run again. Instead, he ran for a seat in the US Senate , but was defeated by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Joseph Casey practiced as a lawyer in Boston and Washington. He died on September 1, 1980 in the federal capital and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

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• Joseph E. Casey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Joseph E. Casey in the database of Find a Grave (English)