Daniel J. Griffin

Daniel Joseph Griffin ( born March 26, 1880 in Brooklyn, New York, † December 11, 1926 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1912 and 1918 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Joseph Griffin was born in the year of death of Victorio, a leader of the Chiricahua Apaches, in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. In the following time he attended Parochial Schools in Brooklyn, the St. Laurent College in Montreal ( Canada) and the St. Peter's College (now Saint Peter 's University ) in Jersey City. He then graduated from New York Law School. His admission to the bar he received in 1902 and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1903 and 1906 he was Commissioner of Licenses in the Borough of Brooklyn. Then he had 1906-1912 the direction of administrative and guardianship Departments guardianship court ( Surrogate 's Court ) in Kings County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1912 he took part in Baltimore as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress Griffin was in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel J. Riordan on March 4, 1913. He was re-elected twice in a row, however, announced his resignation on December 31, 1917. As a Congressman he had presided in the Military Affairs Committee.

After his time Congress he was elected in 1918 and 1919 to the sheriff in Kings County. He then worked as a lawyer again. He died on 11 December 1926 in Brooklyn and was buried there on the Holy Cross Cemetery.