James Shannon

James Michael Shannon ( born April 4, 1952 in Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 1985 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Shannon attended the public schools in Lawrence and thereafter until 1969, the Phillips Academy in Andover. This was followed up in 1973 to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After a subsequent law studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC and his 1975 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Lawrence in this profession. At times he was on the staff of Congressman Michael J. Harrington. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1978, Shannon was selected in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Paul Tsongas on January 3, 1979. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1985 three legislative periods.

In 1984 he gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After the end of his time in Congress, James Shannon practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1987 and 1991 he was the successor of Francis X. Bellotti Attorney General of Massachusetts. In August 2000 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in part, was nominated on the Al Gore as a presidential candidate; in 2002, he became CEO of NFPA, the National Association for fire protection.