Joseph A. Conry

Joseph Aloysius Conry ( born September 12, 1868 in Brookline, Massachusetts, † June 22 1943 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Conry attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Boston in this profession. Between 1896 and 1898 he was Chairman of that city council. Politically, Conry joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1900, he was elected the ninth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John F. Fitzgerald on March 4, 1901. Since he has not been confirmed in 1902, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1903.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joseph Conry practiced among his other activities as a lawyer again. Between 1912 and 1919 he was a Russian consul in the United States. For this he received a medal of Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1911 and 1916 he was a director of the Port Authority of Boston. In the years 1938 and 1939 he served as special prosecutor for the United States Maritime Commission in the capital Washington. He is also passed on 22 June 1943.