United States. 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Patrick Joseph Boland, Late a Representative from Pennsylvania, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943.
BOLAND, Patrick Joseph
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1880–1942
Biography
BOLAND, Patrick Joseph, (husband of Veronica G. Boland), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., January 6, 1880; attended the parochial schools and St. Thomas College, Scranton, Pa.; began work as a carpenter; member of the firm of Boland Brothers, general building contractors; also associated with a sewer and paving contract company; member of the city council of Scranton, Pa., 1905-1906; served on the school board of Scranton 1907-1909; county commissioner of Lackawanna County, Pa., 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Scranton, Pa., May 18, 1942; majority whip (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); interment in Cathedral Cemetery.
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