Joseph F. O'Connell

Joseph F. O'Connell

Joseph Francis O'Connell (born December 7, 1872 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  December 10, 1942 there ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph O'Connell attended schools in his home country and then until 1893 Boston College . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission to the bar in 1897, 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 . In the congressional election of 1906 O'Connell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded William S. McNary on March 4, 1907 . After being re-elected, he was able to hold two legislative terms until March 3, 1911Complete Congress . In 1910 he was not nominated again by his party.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, O'Connell practiced again as a lawyer in Boston. In 1912 and 1920 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions ; from 1918 to 1920 he sat on a commission for the revision of the constitution of Massachusetts . From 1914 until his death he was a member of the nationwide conference for the unification of the laws of the individual states. In 1923 he also served on a commission to revise Boston city laws. O'Connell also taught law at Suffolk Law School in Boston, of which he was also the curator. In 1930 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . The desired nomination for the mayoral election of Boston in 1933 was also missing. Joseph O'Connell died in Boston on December 10, 1942.

Web links

• Joseph F. O'Connell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)