James A. Gallivan

James Ambrose Gallivan ( born October 22, 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 3, 1928 in Arlington, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1914 and 1928 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Gallivan attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1884, the Boston Latin School. Subsequently, he studied until 1888 at Harvard University. Subsequently he worked in the newspaper industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1895 and 1896 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1897 to 1898 he was a member of the State Senate. Between 1900 and 1914 he served as road commissioner ( Street Commissioner) of the City of Boston.

Following the resignation of Mr James Michael Curley Gallivan was in the due election for the twelfth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on April 7, 1914. After seven elections he could remain until his death on April 3, 1928 in Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.