Franklin J. Maloney

Franklin John Maloney ( born March 29, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † September 15, 1958 ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Maloney attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from the Law School of Temple University and his 1923 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1944 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1946, Maloney was but then in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John E. Sheridan on 3 January 1947. Since he has not been confirmed in 1948, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1949. This was marked by the events of the early Cold War. During his time as a congressman, he was a member of the Committee for Fisheries and Merchant Marine. He was also a member of a subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who explored the cultures of other nations. In this capacity he was often on business trips. Maloney supported the then newly created state of Israel and was otherwise against a further division of the Middle East region.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Franklin Maloney practiced as a lawyer again. He died on September 15, 1958 in Philadelphia.