Daniel J. McGillicuddy

Daniel John McGillicuddy ( born August 27, 1859 in Lewiston, Maine; † July 30, 1936 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel McGillicuddy attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1881, the Bowdoin College in Brunswick. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1883 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Lewiston. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1884 and 1885 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Maine. In the years 1887, 1890 and 1902 McGillicuddy served as mayor of Lewiston. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1892, 1904, 1912 and 1920. 1906 and 1908, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case.

McGillicuddy 1910 but was then in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1911, the successor of John P. Swasey of the Republican Party. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1917 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. At this time there were the 16th and the 17th Amendment, discussed and adopted.

In the congressional elections of 1916 and 1918 Gillicuddy each subject the Republicans Wallace H. White. Between 1917 and 1932 he was a member of the Democratic National Committee. He also continued to work as a lawyer in Lewiston. There he died on July 30, 1936.