Joseph V. Flynn

Joseph Vincent Flynn ( born September 2, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 6, 1940 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1915 and 1919 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Vincent Flynn attended public schools and the Boys High School in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1904 at the City College of New York and 1906 at the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and commenced practice in New York City after that. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1914 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 Frank E. Wilson on March 4, 1915. He was re-elected in 1918. Since he gave up for reelection in 1920, he retired after March 3, 1921 from the Congress. Then he was back working as a lawyer in New York City. Flynn took in the years 1925 and 1927 in part as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention. He lived until his death on February 6, 1940 in Brooklyn. His body was interred in the Calvary Cemetery in Long Iceland City.