James P. B. Duffy

James Patrick Bernard Duffy ( born November 25, 1878 in Rochester, New York, † January 8, 1969 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Duffy attended the common schools and then studied until 1901 at Georgetown University in Washington DC After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1904 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Rochester in this profession. Between 1905 and 1932 he was a member of the local school board. In the years 1933 and 1934 he was a member of the Alcohol Control Commission of his state. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Duffy was the 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican James L. Whitley on 3 January 1935. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1936, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937. 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 1937 was James Duffy for several months a judge at the New York Supreme Court between 1938 and 1944 he was a member of the State Probation Commission at. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. Duffy was a member of numerous organizations and clubs in his homeland. He died on January 8, 1969 in Rochester, where he was also buried.