Thomas L. Reilly

Thomas L. Reilly

Thomas Lawrence Reilly (born September 20, 1858 in New Britain , Connecticut , †  July 6, 1924 in New Haven , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the second and from 1913 to 1915 the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Reilly attended the public schools in his home country and then, through 1876, the Connecticut State Normal School . In 1876 he was employed in the administration of the City of New Britain. In 1877 he moved to Meriden with his parents . He studied law for a year but did not work as a lawyer. After that he worked as an accountant for a few years. Until 1886 he also worked as a newspaper correspondent. In 1886 he was one of the co-founders of the newspaper "Meriden Journal", whose editor-in-chief he then became. Between 1896 and 1903 Reilly was on the school board of the town of Meriden. In 1900 he was chairman of the city council and from 1906 to 1912 mayor.

Reilly was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1910 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of Connecticut . There he took over the Republican Nehemiah D. Sperry on March 4, 1911 . After a re-election in 1912 in the third constituency, where he replaced Edwin W. Higgins , he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1915 . It was around this time that the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were passed , which dealt with income tax legislation and the direct election of US Senators .

Since he was not confirmed in the elections of 1914, he had to leave Congress in March 1915. Between 1916 and 1917, Reilly worked for the tax authorities. From 1918 he was sheriff chief of police in New Haven County . He held this office until his death in 1924.

Web links

• Thomas L. Reilly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas L. Reilly in the database of Find a Grave (English)