Richard Alvin Tonry

Richard Alvin Tonry, 1977

Richard Alvin Tonry (born June 25, 1935 in New Orleans , Louisiana - † July 3, 2012 in Lumberton , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between January and May 1977 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Tonry attended several Catholic schools in his hometown of New Orleans. In 1953 he graduated from Jesuit High School . Afterwards he was at Springhill College in Alabama and at Georgetown University in Washington, DC until 1962.After completing a law degree at Loyola University in New Orleans and being admitted to the bar in 1967, he began his new profession in Arabi and Chalmette to work.

Politically, Tonry joined the Democratic Party . In 1976 he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Louisiana, where he succeeded Felix Edward Hébert on January 3, 1977 . However, since there were some irregularities during his election campaign, for which he was convicted, he soon came under political pressure. For this reason he resigned from his mandate on May 4, 1977. At the same time, however, he ran again for the seat he had given up in Congress when the by-election was due. But he was unable to assert himself within his party. The by-election was then won by Republican Bob Livingston . This was the first Republican congressman of the first district of Louisiana since the Reconstruction .

In 1983, Richard Tonry ran unsuccessfully for the Louisiana House of Representatives. He then retired from politics and worked as a private lawyer. Most recently he lived in Arabi.

Web links

• Richard Alvin Tonry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Congressional Bad Boys
• News item about Tonry's election crimes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-La. congressman tonry this in miss. at 77