James J. Heffernan

James Joseph Heffernan ( born November 8, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, † January 27, 1967 in Long Branch, New Jersey ) was an American architect and politician. Between 1941 and 1953 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Joseph Heffernan was about three months after the Theophilus Van Kannel his patent for a revolving door was born in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public and private schools. He graduated in 1906 at Bryant Stratton College and in 1908 at the Pratt Institute. He then worked as an architect in 1908. Between 1926 and 1933 he was Commissioner of Highways in Brooklyn. It was made in 1938 as a delegate part in the Constituent Assembly of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1940 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Marcellus H. Evans on January 4, 1941. After a successful re-election he was a candidate in the eleventh electoral district of New York for a congress seat. Heffernan then entered on January 4, 1945, the successor of Ellsworth B. Buck. He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1952, he retired after January 3, 1953 from the Congress.

After that he worked as an architect. He died on January 27, 1967 in Long Branch and was then buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.