James A. Byrne

James Aloysius Byrne ( born June 22, 1906 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † September 3, 1980 ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1973 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Byrne attended the public schools of his home and then the Saint Joseph's College, also in Philadelphia. Between 1937 and 1950 he worked among other things as a funeral director. From 1934 to 1939 he worked in the district administration in the department of vital statistics. From 1940 to 1943 he was first deputy and between 1943 and 1945 real U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Between 1945 and 1950, Byrne also worked for the Ministry of Finance of his state. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In June 1936 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in part, was nominated to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-election. In the years 1951 and 1952 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1952, Byrne was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Scott Hardie on January 3, 1953. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1973 ten legislative periods. In his time as an MP were among others the Vietnam War and the final phase of the civil rights movement. In 1972, he lost in the primaries of his party against William J. Green, who then won the election itself.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Byrne is no longer politically have appeared. He died on September 3, 1980 in Philadelphia.