Richard J. Tonry

Richard Joseph Tonry ( born September 30, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, † January 17, 1971 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Joseph Tonry born during the World's Columbian Exposition in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. In the following years he attended public schools in Brooklyn, the Randolph Military Academy in Montclair (New Jersey) and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. During the First World War, he enlisted in 1917 as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and served there until his dismissal in 1921. Afterwards, he went in 1921 real estate and insurance business after. Between 1922 and 1929 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Then he was 1930-1934 Member of the Board of Aldermen of New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1934 for the 74th Congress Tonry was in the eighth election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Patrick J. Carley on January 4, 1935. In 1936 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after January 3, 1937 the Congress of.

He took in the years 1938, 1940, 1942 and 1946 in part as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention. Between 1943 and 1946 he was Journal Clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1947 he was appointed Commissioner of appraisal for the Corporation Counsel in New York City. He also went back to real estate and insurance business. He died on January 17, 1971 in Brooklyn and was then buried at the United States Military Cemetery in Long Iceland.