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O'CONNOR, John Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Raynham, near Taunton,
Bristol County, Mass., on November 23, 1885; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1908, and from the law
department of Harvard University in 1911; was admitted to the Massachusetts bar
in 1910; moved to New York City in 1911; was admitted to the New York bar in
1912 and commenced the practice of law; secretary to the Democratic members of
the New York State constitutional convention in 1915; member of the State
assembly 1920-1923; legislative secretary for the Child Welfare Commission in
1921 and 1922; vice chairman of the legislative committee on the exploitation
of immigrants in 1922 and 1923; member of the legislative committee on the
revision of the corporation laws of New York in 1922 and 1923; delegate to all
New York State and county conventions from 1919 to 1938; delegate at large to
the Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia in 1936; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of W. Bourke Cockran; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the six succeeding
Congresses and served from November 6, 1923, to January 3, 1939; chairman,
Committee on Rules (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1938, but received the Republican
nomination and was unsuccessful for reelection to the Seventy-sixth Congress;
engaged in the practice of law in New York City and Washington, D.C., until his
death in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1960; interment in Gate of Heaven
Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
BibliographyPolenberg, Richard. Franklin Roosevelt and the Purge of John
OConnor: The Impact of Urban Change on Political Parties.
New York History 49 (July 1968): 306-26.
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