Gerald T. Flynn

Gerald Thomas Flynn ( born October 7, 1910 at the Racine County, Wisconsin, † 14 May 1990 in Racine, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1961 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gerald Flynn attended the public schools of his home, including the Racine high school. After a subsequent Jurastudiuman at the Law School Marquette University and its made ​​in 1933 admitted to the bar he began in Racine to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1940 and 1960 he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions; 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the Senate of Wisconsin.

In the congressional elections of 1958, he was the first electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime deceased Lawrence H. Smith of the Republican Party on January 3, 1959. Since he Republican Henry C. Schade Mountain defeated in the elections of 1960, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1961.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Gerald Flynn withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on 14 May 1990 in his hometown of Racine.

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