Michael J. Harrington

Michael Joseph Harrington ( born September 2, 1936 in Salem, Massachusetts ) is a retired American politician. Between 1969 and 1979 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Harrington attended until 1954, the St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers and then studied until 1958 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree at Harvard and his 1961 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the years 1962 and 1963 he studied nor the administrative nature, also at Harvard University. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1960 to 1963 he was a member of the council of Salem; 1964-1969 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1968 he was a member of the State Board of his party.

After the death of Mr William H. Bates Harrington was at the due election for the sixth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on September 30, 1969. After four elections he could remain until January 3, 1979 at the Congress. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. 1978 renounced Michael Harrington on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he is no longer politically have appeared. His retirement he spends in Beverly.

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