George F. O'Shaunessy

George Francis O'Shaunessy ( born May 1, 1868 in Galway, Ireland, † November 28, 1934 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1919 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1872, George O'Shaunessy emigrated with his parents to the United States. The family settled in New York City, where the young George attended the public schools. After studying law and its made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in New York. This activity he held until 1907. From 1904 to 1905 he was Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York. In 1907 he moved to Providence, Rhode Iceland, where he also worked as a lawyer.

O'Shaunessy was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1910 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. The taking place in the same year congressional elections he was elected in the first district of the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he met on March 4, 1911 is the successor of the Republican William Paine Sheffield. After three re- elections he could spend in Congress until March 3, 1919 four legislative sessions. In this time of American entry into the First World War fell. In addition, in 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. Shortly before the end of his tenure in Congress was ratified on January 16, 1919 the 18th Amendment, which instituted the nationwide Prohibition Act and should the bootleggers and gangster syndicates bring a golden era.

For the elections of 1918, O'Shaunessy opted not to run again for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Between October 1919 and July 1921, he headed the tax authority in Rhode Iceland (Collector of Internal Revenue ). He then worked again as a lawyer.