Patrick J. Boland

Patrick Joseph Boland ( born January 6, 1880 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, † May 18, 1942 ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1942 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Patrick Boland attended the common schools and the St. Thomas College. He then worked as a carpenter. Subsequently, he was employed by the trades in the construction company Boland Brothers. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1905 and 1906 he sat in the council of Scranton; 1907 to 1909 he was a member of the local school board. Between 1915 and 1919 he served as County Commissioner District in Lackawanna County.

In the congressional elections of 1930, Boland was in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Laurence Hawley Watres on March 4, 1931. After five elections he could remain until his death on May 18, 1942 at the Congress. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

According to Boland's death, his mandate was in a special election to his widow Veronica.