Paul J. Kilday

Paul Joseph Kilday ( born March 29, 1900 in Sabinal, Uvalde County, Texas, † October 12, 1968 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented the state of Texas as a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Paul Kildays moved to San Antonio in 1904. There he attended the public school and the parochial school and St. Mary 's College. Kilday worked as an administrative officer at the United States Air Force in Washington and later as a firm force in the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation during the period 1921 and 1922. Moreover, he graduated in 1922 at the legal department of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His admission as he was a lawyer in the same year and opened a practice in San Antonio. He then worked from 1935 to 1938 as First Deputy District Attorney of Bexar County, Texas.

Policy

He was subsequently elected as a Democrat to the 76th and the eleven subsequent Congresses. His term lasted from January 3, 1939 until his resignation on 24 September 1961 when he was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. This activity he held until his death on October 12, 1968 in Washington. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. During his tenure in Congress, he refused in 1956, the Southern Manifesto sign that spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.