Michael Reilly

Michael Kieran Reilly ( born July 15, 1869 in Empire, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, † October 14, 1944 in Neptune, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1917, and again from 1930 to 1939, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Reilly attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1889, the Oshkosh Normal School. Subsequently, he studied until 1894 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made in 1895 admitted to the bar he began in Fond du Lac to work in his new profession. In the years 1899 and 1900, Reilly served as district attorney in Fond du Lac County. From 1905 to 1910 he was the legal representative of the city of Fond du Lac.

Politically, Reilly member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1908 and 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Michael E. Burke on March 4, 1913. After a re-election in 1916 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 two legislative sessions. In the 1916 elections, he was defeated by Republican James H. Davidson.

In the years after his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Michael Reilly again worked as a lawyer. After the death of Congressman Florian Lampert, he was elected in the by-election due for the sixth mandate his state to his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took on November 4, 1930 his old seat back. After three re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1939 at the Congress. At this time there most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. In 1933 was also the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

In the 1938 elections Reilly lost to Republican Frank Bateman Keefe. In the following years he worked as a lawyer again. He died on 14 October 1944 in Neptune (New Jersey) and was buried in Woodlawn (New York).

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