Jeremiah E. O'Connell

Jeremiah Edward O'Connell ( born July 8, 1883 in Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † September 18, 1964 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927, and again from 1929 to 1930, he was the third election district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeremiah O'Connell attended the common schools and then studied at Boston University, among others, Jura. After his made ​​in 1907 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Boston. A year later he moved his residence and his law firm to Providence.

Between 1913 and 1921 he was a member of the City Council of Providence. O'Connell was a member of the Democratic Party and in 1922 as its candidate in the third district of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1923 is the successor of the Republican Ambrose Kennedy. After a re-election in 1924, O'Connell was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 two legislative sessions.

In 1926 he was defeated in the congressional elections the Republicans Louis Monast, whom he had beaten in 1924 yet. 1928 came in congressional elections again a duel between the two, which decided this time O'Connell for themselves. So that he could once again move into the U.S. House of Representatives on March 4, 1929. On 9 May 1930, he resigned his seat in Congress after he was appointed associate judge on the Superior Court of Rhode Iceland.

O'Connell exercised his new office until 10 January 1935. On this day, he was appointed Chairman of this court. He continued in this function until 1948. Afterwards it was 1948-1956 Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of his State. On January 18, 1956, he retired, he spent in Cranston. Jeremiah O'Connell died on 18 September 1964 and was buried in Pawtucket.