Gregory McMahon

Gregory McMahon ( born March 19, 1915 in New York City, † 1989 in Garden City, New York) was an American soldier and politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gregory McMahon was born during the First World War in New York City. He attended a Parochial School. After he graduated in 1933 at St. John's Prep School in Brooklyn, and in 1938 at St. John 's University. Between 1939 and 1942 he taught at St. John 's College. During this time, he worked from 1939 as a chartered accountant and attended 1939-1941 St. John's Law School. After the entry of the United States into the Second World War in December 1941, he signed up as Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He served until October 1945 in the Pacific War. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1946, McMahon was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William B. Barry on January 4, 1947. He suffered in 1948 during his re-election bid a defeat and retired after January 3, 1949, the Congress of. He then worked as an auditor and tax advisor. He lived in Garden City, where he died in 1989.