Timothy P. Sheehan

Timothy P. Sheehan

Timothy Patrick Sheehan (born February 21, 1909 in Chicago , Illinois , †  October 8, 2000 there ) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1959 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Timothy Sheehan attended St. Pius Grammar School and Joseph Medill High School and then studied at Northwestern University until 1931 . From 1932 he worked as a food importer and trader. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In the 1950 congressional election , he was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Illinois in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Chester A. Chesney on January 3, 1951 .

Sheehan had won the elections not least because he had promised the Polish immigrant community in his district, which traditionally voted for the candidates of the Democratic Party, to work in concert for a committee of inquiry to investigate the Katyn massacre . When this committee, called the Madden Commission after its chairman Ray J. Madden , was formed in 1951 , Sheehan was appointed one of its seven members. Together with his fellow party member Alvin O'Konski , he issued a statement on the final report of the Madden Commission, which was adopted at the end of 1952, which sharply criticized President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy towards the Soviet Union under Stalin .

After three re-elections, he was able to complete four terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . During this time the Korean War fell and the civil rights movement began . In 1958 he was not re-elected.

In 1959 Sheehan ran for the office of Mayor of Chicago, but lost significantly with 29:71 percent of the vote against the Democratic incumbent Richard J. Daley ; In 1960 an attempt to return to Congress failed. Otherwise he worked again in the food import trade. Between 1964 and 1984 he participated as a delegate at all Republican National Conventions . From 1964 to 1968 he was regional party leader for the Republicans in Cook County . He was President from 1971 to 1983 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Peerless Federal Savings and Loan Association from 1984 to 2000 . He died in Chicago on October 8, 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Weber : War of the perpetrators. The Katyn mass shootings . Hamburg 2015, p. 376.
2. ^ The Katyn Forest Massacre US Government Printing Office. Washington 1952, Vol. 3, p. 220.
3. ↑ Claudia Weber: War of the perpetrators. The Katyn mass shootings . Hamburg 2015, p. 385.
4. ↑ ourcampaigns.com: Chicago Mayor Race 1959

Web links

• Timothy P. Sheehan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)