James P. Maher

James Paul Maher ( born November 3, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, † July 31, 1946 in Keansburg, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1921 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Paul Maher was born a few months after the end of the civil war in Brooklyn and graduated there at the St. Patrick's Academy. He served an apprenticeship as a Hatter. In 1887 he moved to Danbury (Connecticut), where he worked as Hutmachergeselle. In 1897 he was Treasurer of the United Hatters of North America. In 1902, he returned to Brooklyn.

He ran unsuccessfully in 1908 for a congress seat. Policy, he belonged to the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1910 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Otto G. Foelker on March 4, 1911. He ran in 1912 for the fifth district of New York for a Kongressstiz. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1913, to succeed William C. Redfield. He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1918 he was elected the seventh district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of John J. Delaney on March 4, 1919. In his sixth nomination in 1920 but he was defeated and retired after March 3, 1921 the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor ( 63 to 65 Congress ).

After that, he pursued real estate business in Brooklyn. He then moved to Keansburg, where he continued his activities. In 1926 he was elected mayor of Keansburg. He died there on 31 July 1946 and was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Keyport.