John M. Costello

John Martin Costello ( born January 15, 1903 in Los Angeles, California; † August 28, 1976 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1945 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Costello attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and his in 1924 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1924 and 1925 he was also still working as a primary school teacher in Los Angeles. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1932 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Costello was but then in the 15th Election District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William I. Traeger on 3 January 1935. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945 five legislative sessions. There, until 1941 most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

1944 John Costello was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1945 and 1947 he was Managing Director of the Representation of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles in the capital Washington. Then he practiced until 1976 in Washington as a lawyer. He died on August 28, 1976 in Las Vegas, and was buried in Los Angeles.