Michael J. Stack

Michael Joseph Stack ( born September 29, 1888 in Listowel, County Kerry, United Kingdom, † December 14, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Stack first attended the public schools of his Irish homeland. In 1903 he came to Philadelphia, where he attended Saint Joseph 's College. Then he studied until 1910 at the Saint Mary's University in Baltimore. Between 1910 and 1917 he worked in Detroit for a railway company. In 1917 he was a soldier in a medical unit of the U.S. armed forces. After the war he worked in Philadelphia in the real estate industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1934 stack in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Edward L. Stokes on 3 January 1935. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted.

In 1938, Michael Stack has not been nominated by the Democrats for re-election. Then he ran unsuccessfully for a company founded by Charles Coughlin Royal Oak party. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Stack worked again in the real estate industry in Philadelphia, where he died on 14 December 1960.