James H. Gildea

James Hilary Gildea ( born October 21, 1890 in Coaldale, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, † June 5, 1988 in Arlington, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Gildea attended the common schools and graduated from then until 1905, teaching in the printing trade. Since 1910 he worked in the newspaper industry. This year, he founded the newspaper Coaldale Observer. Between 1930 and 1933 he was chairman of Coaldale Relief Society and the Panther Valley Miners' Equalization Committee. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Gildea was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican George F. Brumm on 3 January 1935. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In the years 1938, 1940 and 1950, James Gildea competed unsuccessfully to each his disappearance and his return to the Congress. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked until 1972, again in the newspaper industry. From 1962 to 1965 he headed the Coaldale State Hospital. He also coached a football team. In 1972, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Arlington, where he died on 5 June 1988 at the age of 97 years.