T. Vincent Quinn

Thomas Vincent Quinn ( born March 16, 1903 in Long Iceland City, Queens, New York, † March 1, 1982 in Venice, Florida ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Vincent Quinn was born in the beginning of the 20th century in Long Iceland City, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. He attended elementary school and high school in Queens. In 1924 he graduated from Fordham University Law School. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and then started practicing City in June 1925 in New York. He was from September 1931 to August 1934 Deputy District Attorney in Queens and Vice 1934-1947 United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. On July 21, 1947, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a position which he held until his resignation on 10 August 1948. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1948, Quinn was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Tripp Ross on January 4, 1949. Two years later he was re-elected, but resigned on December 30, 1951 from the Congress of.

After that he worked as a district attorney in Queens until 31 December 1955. Quinn suffered in 1955 when his Democratic nomination for the post defeat. On April 30, 1957, he was appointed magistrate, a position which he held until the merger of his duties with the New York City Criminal Court in 1962. He then worked as a judge at the Criminal Court to 15 September 1972. After that he lived until his death on March 1, 1982 in Venice.