John E. Sheridan
John Edward Sheridan ( born September 15, 1902 in Waterbury, Connecticut; † 12 November 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Sheridan attended the common schools and then studied until 1925 at the University of Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law degree from Temple University and his 1931 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his hometown in this profession. Between 1934 and 1937 he was Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was a member of the Philadelphia County a commission for the reform of the local tax system. In the years 1938 and 1939 he was a legal advisor to the Delaware River Bridge Commission. Politically, Sheridan joined the Democratic Party. In 1932 to 1944 he was a delegate in all four Democratic National Conventions, on each of which Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated as a presidential candidate.
After the death of Mr J. Daly Burrwood Sheridan was at the due election for the fourth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1939. After three re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1947 in Congress. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In 1946, Sheridan gave up another Congress candidate.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. Between 1954 and 1962 he was a member as a colonel in the United States Air Force. From 1954 to 1965 Sheridan sat in the district committee to revise the legislation. He was also in Philadelphia Consul General for Monaco. He died on 12 November 1987 in Philadelphia and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.