Michael Reilly

Michael Reilly

Michael Kieran Reilly (born July 15, 1869 in Empire , Fond du Lac County , Wisconsin , †  October 14, 1944 in Neptune , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1917 and again from 1930 to 1939 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Michael Reilly attended the public schools of his homeland and then until 1889 the Oshkosh Normal School . He then studied until 1894 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1895, he began to work in his new profession in Fond du Lac . In 1899 and 1900, Reilly served as district attorney in Fond du Lac County. From 1905 to 1910 he was the legal representative of the city of Fond du Lac.

Politically, Reilly was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1908 and 1924 he was a delegate to their Democratic National Conventions . In the 1912 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Michael E. Burke on March 4, 1913 . After a re-election in 1916, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1917 . In the 1916 election he was defeated by Republican James H. Davidson .

In the years after leaving the US House of Representatives, Michael Reilly returned to work as a lawyer. After the death of Congressman Florian Lampert , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives for the sixth mandate of his state. There he resumed his old seat on November 4, 1930. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1939. It was there that most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were also ratified.

In the 1938 election, Reilly lost to Republican Frank Bateman Keefe . In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on 14 October 1944 in Neptune (New Jersey) and was in Woodlawn ( New York buried).

Web links

• Michael Reilly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Michael Reilly in the database of Find a Grave (English)