Joseph L. Pfeifer

Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer ( born February 6, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, † April 19, 1974 ) was an American physician and politician. Between 1935 and 1951 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer attended St. Nicholas Parochial School, St. Leonard's Academy and St. Francis College in Brooklyn. In 1914 he graduated from the Medical College Long Iceland and even began to practice the same year. He was a lecturer and wrote surgical articles. During World War II he was in the medical advisory board ( Medical Advisory Board) and instructed medical officers who went overseas.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1934 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George W. Lindsay on January 4, 1935. He was re-elected five times in a row. In 1944 he ran in the eighth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1945, the successor to Donald L. O'Toole. He was re-elected once. On his ninth nomination in 1950, he was defeated and retired after January 3, 1951 from the Congress of.

After that, he was until his retirement again worked as a doctor. He died on 19 April 1974 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the St. John Cemetery in Middle Village.