Thomas A. Flaherty

Thomas Aloysius Flaherty ( born December 21, 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 27, 1965 ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1943 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Flaherty attended the common schools and studied at the School of Law at Northeastern University in Boston then. During the First World War he served in 1918 in the U.S. Army. Between 1920 and 1934 he worked in Boston for the federal Veterans Administration. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1935 to 1937 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Following the resignation of Mr John Patrick Higgins Flaherty was in the due election for the eleventh 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 14 December 1937. After two re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1943 at the Congress. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. 1942 renounced Flaherty on another candidacy.

In the years 1943 to 1945 was Thomas Flaherty Transit Commissioner of the City of Boston. From 1946 to 1953 he headed the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, the State Administration of public utilities. He then worked for the City of Boston until 1960 in other positions. He also worked in the real estate industry and as an expert. He died on 27 April 1965 at the Boston district of Charlestown.