Patrick B. O'Sullivan

Patrick Brett O'Sullivan ( born August 11, 1887 in Derby, Connecticut, † November 10, 1978 in Orange, Connecticut ) was an American politician. From 1923 to 1925 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Patrick O'Sullivan attended the common schools and then studied until 1908 at Yale University, and until 1909 at the George Washington University in Washington. After a subsequent study at the Law School of Yale University and his made ​​in 1913 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Derby.

O'Sullivan was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated to the president Woodrow Wilson for a second term. In 1917 he was a member and Democratic majority leader in the Senate from Connecticut. However, this mandate he resigned to serve during World War II in the U.S. Navy.

In the congressional elections of 1922, O'Sullivan was selected in the fifth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1923 the succession of Republican James P. Glynn, whom he had defeated in the election. But since he lost to Glynn already at the next elections in 1924, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1925.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. O'Sullivan worked as a lawyer again. He also taught at Yale Law. Between 1931 and 1950, O'Sullivan was a judge at the Superior Court of Connecticut. After that, he was until 1957 an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State. In his last months in this court, he was chairman until his 70th birthday on August 11, 1957 Judge ( Chief Justice ). This office he was forced to retire upon reaching the age limit.

Later O'Sullivan worked as a state conciliator (State Trial Referee ) in New Haven. In 1965 he was deputy chairman of a commission for the revision of the constitution of Connecticut. Patrick O'Sullivan died on November 10, 1978 in his home in Orange, where he had spent his retirement.