Joseph F. O'Connell

Joseph Francis O'Connell ( born December 7, 1872 in Boston, Massachusetts, † December 10, 1942 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph O'Connell attended the schools of his home and then to 1893 Boston College. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1897 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1906, O'Connell was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William S. McNary on March 4, 1907. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 two legislative sessions. In 1910 he was not re-nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives O'Connell practiced again as a lawyer in Boston. In the years 1912 and 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant; 1918 to 1920 he sat in a commission for the revision of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Since 1914 until his death he was a member of the nationwide conference to unify the laws of individual states. In 1923, he also acted in a commission for the revision of the municipal laws of Boston. O'Connell also taught at Suffolk Law School in Boston Jura, whose curator, he was at the same time. In 1930 he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the elections to the U.S. Senate. The target nomination for mayor in Boston in 1933 failed to materialize as well. Joseph O'Connell died on December 10, 1942 in Boston.