Robert S. Maloney

Robert S. Maloney

Robert Sarsfield Maloney (born February 3, 1881 in Lawrence , Essex County , Massachusetts , †  November 8, 1934 there ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Maloney attended the public schools in his home country and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. He was involved in the trade union movement and was a delegate at a trade union congress in Winnipeg, Canada in 1907 . He was also involved in founding and building the International Typographical Union for New England . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party and in 1909 became a member of the Lawrence parish council. In 1912 and from 1915 to 1920 he headed the Health and Welfare Agency in Lawrence. From 1916 to 1920 he was a member and president of the local council in this place. Between 1913 and 1914 he worked again in the printing trade.

In the 1920 congressional elections , Maloney was elected to the Seventh Constituency of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Michael Francis Phelan on March 4, 1921 . Since he refused to run again in 1920, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1923 . Between 1924 and 1928 he was again before the health and welfare authorities in Lawrence. He also published a weekly newspaper; later he also got into the restaurant business. Robert Maloney died on November 8, 1934 in his hometown of Lawrence.

Web links

• Robert S. Maloney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)