Paul Joseph Kilday

Paul J. Kilday (1961)

Paul Joseph Kilday (born March 29, 1900 in Sabinal , Uvalde County , Texas , †  October 12, 1968 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented the state of Texas as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

Paul Kildays moved to San Antonio in 1904 . There he attended public schools as well as denominational schools and St. Mary's College . Kilday served as an administrative clerk with the United States Air Force in Washington and later as a clerk with the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation between 1921 and 1922. He also graduated from the law department of Georgetown University in Washington DC in 1922 and was admitted to the bar he that same year and opened a practice in San Antonio. He then served from 1935 to 1938 as the first assistant district attorney for Bexar County , Texas.

politics

He was then elected as a Democrat in the 76th and 11 subsequent Congresses . His tenure ran from January 3, 1939 until his resignation on September 24, 1961 when he was appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces . He held this position in Washington until his death on October 12, 1968. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia . During his tenure in Congress in 1956, he refused to sign the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

Web links

• Paul Joseph Kilday in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)