Nicholas J. Sinnott

Nicholas J. Sinnott (1913)

Nicholas John Sinnott (born December 6, 1870 in The Dalles , Oregon , †  July 20, 1929 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1913 and 1928 he represented the second constituency of the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nicholas Sinnott attended schools in his home country and then studied until 1892 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1895, he began working in his new profession in his hometown The Dalles.

Sinnott became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1909 and 1911 he was a member of the Oregon Senate . In 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced Walter Lafferty on March 4, 1913 , who had moved to the third constituency. Up to and including 1926, Nicholas Sinnott was regularly confirmed in office. In Congress he was temporarily chairman of the committee for the administration of the state land and a member of the committee for the granting of patent rights. He also campaigned for the expansion of irrigation systems in eastern Oregon.

On April 18, 1928, Nicholas Sinnott was appointed federal judge at the Court of Claims by US President Calvin Coolidge . Thereupon he resigned his parliamentary mandate on May 31 of the same year. Sinnott remained a federal judge until his death in July 1929. He had been married to Dora Purcell since 1901, with whom he had six children.

Web links

• Nicholas J. Sinnott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nicholas J. Sinnott in the database of Find a Grave (English)