James Aloysius O'Gorman

James Aloysius O'Gorman ( born May 5, 1860 in New York City; † May 17, 1943 ibid ) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party), who represented the State of New York in the U.S. Senate.

James O'Gorman first attended the public schools of his home town and then the College of the City of New York. In 1882, he received his law degree from New York University, after which he was admitted in the same year in the Bar Association of the State. From 1893 to 1899 he was a member of the District Court of New York, before he was elected judge of the New York Supreme Court, where he remained from 1900 to 1911.

For U.S. Senator O'Gorman was as a compromise candidate. At this time, the choice was still made ​​by the parliaments of the respective states, with the Democratic party in both the House and the Senate from New York had the majority. In order for a re-election of Republican Senator Chauncey Depew was unlikely. Democratic candidate for the succession was the former Vice- Governor William F. Sheehan, Charles Francis Murphy, head of the influential " party machine " Tammany Hall, largely supported. However, a 19 -member group of Democratic members of parliament to State Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt, who did not want to let persons from outside dictate their decision and therefore rejected Sheehan's choice was formed.

The vote came therefore to a dead end. Although Sheehan scored a majority, but this was not absolute and handed the election thus not sufficient. For three months, took place daily except Sundays a ballot, but none led to the decision. After 62 unsuccessful attempts - during this time the actual parliamentary work virtually came to a complete stop - hit "Boss" Murphy finally judge before O'Gorman, who had obtained in the first fraction internal coordination of the Democrats on March 27, the first time a voice. After the agreement was done on him, O'Gorman was elected on March 31, with 112 of 192 votes as the new senator. He laid on the same day resigned his judgeship.

O'gorman Senate career was less spectacular than his choice. He completed a six -year term in Congress, during which he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. For re-election, the first time was by the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in the hands of citizens, he did not present himself; the mandate fell to the Republican William M. Calder. O'Gorman subsequently worked as a lawyer in New York and was also curator of the New York University and the College of New Rochelle. He stood in front of the New York County Lawyers' Association, and in 1934 the Supreme Court appointed as official mediator in the New York, which he remained until his death in May 1843.