Denis J. Driscoll

Denis Joseph Driscoll ( born March 27, 1871 in North Lawrence, St. Lawrence County, New York, † January 18, 1958 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Denis Driscoll attended the public schools of his home, the Lawrenceville Academy and the State Teachers ' College in Potsdam. In the years 1888 and 1889 he taught in Potsdam as a teacher. He then moved to St. Marys, Pennsylvania, where he also worked as a teacher until 1891. Between 1892 and 1897 he was a Principal overseeing the local public schools. After studying law and his 1898 was admitted to the bar he began in St. Marys to work in this profession. He also volunteered at the Spanish-American War of 1898 in part.

After the war, Driscoll suggested as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1899 and 1922 he sat in the State Board of his party; in 1905, he was even State Chairman. In addition, he served from 1903 to 1906 as mayor of St. Marys. Between 1911 and 1936 he headed the local school board. In 1916 and 1920 he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. From 1920 to 1921 he was United States Attorney for the western part of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Driscoll was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Thomas Cunningham Cochran on 3 January 1935. Since he has not been confirmed in 1936, he was able to complete only one legislative sessions in Congress until January 3, 1937. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. During his time in Congress more New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted.

Between 1937 and 1940, Denis Driscoll was chairman of the public utilities commission of Pennsylvania ( Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ). This office he resigned because he had been appointed one of two officers of the Federal Court for the Southern part of the State of New York to build the local insolvent gas and electricity companies again. A post he held until 1946. Denis Driscoll died on January 18, 1958 in St. Marys, where he was also buried.