John J. Rooney

John James Rooney ( born November 29, 1903 in Brooklyn, New York, † 26 October 1975, in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1944 and 1974 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John James Rooney was born in the beginning of the 20th century in Brooklyn. He attended parochial schools and St. Francis Preparatory School and College. He went to the law faculty of Fordham University in New York City, he and a Bachelor of Laws left again in 1925. His admission to the bar, he received the following year and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1940 and 1944 he was a deputy district attorney in Brooklyn.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He was on 6 June 1944 in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Thomas H. Cullen. In 1944 he stood as a candidate in the twelfth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he stepped on 3 January 1945, the successor of Samuel Dickstein. He was re-elected three times in a row. He was then elected in 1952 in the 14th electoral district of New York in the 83rd Congress, where he became the successor of Abraham J. Multer on January 3, 1953. He was re-elected ten times in a row. In 1974, he opted not to run again and also appeared on December 31, 1974 Congress returned from his seat.

He lived until his death on 26 October 1975 in Washington DC and was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.