Thomas H. Cullen

Thomas Henry Cullen ( born March 29, 1868 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 1, 1944 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1919 and 1944 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Henry Cullen was born about three years after the end of the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended local parochial schools and graduated in 1880 at St. Francis College. Then he went to sea transport insurance (marine insurance ) and ship stores. Between 1896 and 1898 he sat in the New York State Assembly and 1899-1918 in the Senate from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. As a delegate, he took 1912 to 1932 at every Democratic National Convention in part. In the congressional elections of 1918, Cullen was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harry H. Dale on March 4, 1919. Cullen was reelected twelve times in a row. He died during his last term of office on March 1, 1944 in Washington DC and was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.