Thomas A. Flaherty

Thomas A. Flaherty (1938)

Thomas Aloysius Flaherty (born December 21, 1898 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  April 27, 1965 ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1943 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Flaherty attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the School of Law at Northeastern University in Boston. During the First World War he served in the US Army in 1918 . Between 1920 and 1934 he worked in Boston for the Federal Veterans Service. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1935 to 1937 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts .

After the resignation of MP John Patrick Higgins , Flaherty was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the eleventh seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on December 14, 1937. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1943 . By 1941, the last of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . In 1942 Flaherty renounced another candidacy.

From 1943 to 1945 Thomas Flaherty was the transit officer for the city of Boston. From 1946 to 1953 he headed the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities , the state agency for public utilities. He then held other positions for the city of Boston until 1960. He also worked in the real estate industry and as an appraiser. He died on April 27, 1965 in the Boston district of Charlestown .

Web links

• Thomas A. Flaherty in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas A. Flaherty in the database of Find a Grave (English)