Michael Francis Phelan

Michael Francis Phelan ( born October 22, 1875 in Lynn, Massachusetts, † October 12, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1921 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Phelan attended the public schools of his home, including the Lynn Classical High School. Then he studied until 1897 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Lynn to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1905 to 1906 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Phelan was in the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ernest W. Roberts on March 4, 1913. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 four legislative sessions. Between 1917 and 1919 he headed the Committee on banking and currency matters. In his time as a congressman was among other things the First World War. In 1920 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Michael Phelan practiced in Lynn, Boston and Washington as a lawyer. In 1937 he became a member of the Merrimack Valley Sewage Commission. In the same year he was also appointed to the Committee on Labour Affairs ( Massachusetts Labor Relations Board ), where he served until his death on 12 October 1941.