Vincent Luke Palmisano

Vincent Luke Palmisano (* August 5, 1882 in Termini Imerese, Italy, † probably January 12, 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1939 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1887, Vincent Palmisano came with his parents from his native Italy to Baltimore, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland and his 1909 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1914 and 1915 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland; 1915 to 1923 he was a member of the City Council of Baltimore. Between 1925 and 1927 he worked as a police Examiner for the police in his hometown. He was also a 1923-1927 member of the party executive of the Democrats in Baltimore.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Palmisano was in the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill on March 4, 1927. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 six legislative periods. Since 1933, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During Palmisano's time in Congress were the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. In 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. From 1935 to 1939 Palmisano headed the Education Committee. Since 1937 he was also Chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia. In 1938, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Vincent Palmisano again practiced as a lawyer. Until 1952 he was a member of the Planning Committee of the City of Baltimore. He died under mysterious circumstances, probably on 12 January 1953. On this day he disappeared from his home in Baltimore. On March 5, the same year his body was found in a harbor basin. The authorities assumed a suicide.