John J. Gorman

John Jerome Gorman ( born June 2, 1883 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † February 24, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1927 he represented two times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Gorman attended the public schools and Bryant and Stratton Business College in Chicago. Since 1902 he worked at the post of Chicago, among others, as a postman. After studying law at the city's Loyola University and his 1914 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Chicago in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1920 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Gorman was the sixth election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James McAndrews on March 4, 1921. Since he has not been confirmed in 1922, he was initially able to spend only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In the 1924 elections, he was re-elected in the sixth district of Illinois in Congress, where he replaced James R. Buckley on March 4, 1925 which was two years before become his successor. Until March 3, 1927, he was able to complete another term in the House of Representatives. In 1928 he was not re-elected.

After the final end of his time in Congress, John Gorman operated again as an attorney in Chicago, where he died on 24 February 1949.