Timothy P. Sheehan

Timothy Patrick Sheehan ( born February 21, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 8, 2000 ) was an American politician. Between 1951 and 1959 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Sheehan attended St. Pius Grammar School and the Joseph Medill High School and then studied until 1931 at Northwestern University. Since 1932 he worked as a food importer and distributor. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1950 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Chester A. Chesney on January 3, 1951. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1959 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement fell. In 1958 he was not re-elected.

In 1959, Sheehan ran for mayor of Chicago, but lost significantly with 29:71 percent of the vote against Democratic incumbent Richard J. Daley; 1960 failed an attempt to return to Congress. Otherwise, he again worked in the food import trade. Between 1964 and 1984 he took part in all the Republican National Convention as a delegate. From 1964 to 1968 he was a regional party leader of the Republicans in Cook County. Between 1971 and 1983 he was president from 1984 to 2000 and CEO of Peerless Federal Savings and Loan Association. He died on 8 October 2000 in Chicago.

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