Thomas J. O'Brien (politician)

Thomas J. O'Brien

Thomas Joseph O'Brien (born April 30, 1878 in Chicago , Illinois , †  April 14, 1964 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1939 and again from 1943 to 1964 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas O'Brien attended public schools in his home country. He also took courses in business law and accounting. From 1913 to 1924 he was an auditor at the State Bank . In 1918 he also worked as an accountant. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1907 and 1910 and again from 1929 to 1932 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives .

In the 1932 congressional election , O'Brien was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded James T. Igoe on March 4, 1933 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd.

In 1938, Thomas O'Brien did not stand for re-election. From 1939 to 1942 he was sheriff in Cook County . In the elections of 1942 he was re-elected to Congress in the sixth district of his state, where he succeeded AF Maciejewski on January 3, 1943, who had succeeded him four years earlier. After ten re-elections, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until his death on April 14, 1964. During this time, the end of the Second World War , the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement took place .

Web links

• Thomas J. O'Brien in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)