William Bernard Barry

William Bernard Barry ( born July 21, 1902 in County Mayo, Ireland, † October 20, 1946 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1935 and 1946 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Bernard Barry was born in County Mayo, a few weeks before the accession of Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland. His family emigrated in 1907 to the United States and settled in Queens. He attended public schools. After he graduated in 1925 at New York University in New York City and 1929 at the Law School. After receiving his license to practice law in 1929, he began practicing in New York City. He was in the years 1932 and 1933 as deputy district attorney in Queens and then worked 1933-1935 as a special federal prosecutor for the Justice Department. He was also a 1930-1935 member of the Democratic Executive Committee of Queens.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Barry was born on November 5, 1935 in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of William F. Brunner. In the following congressional elections of 1936, he was elected in the second district of New York for a full term in the U.S. House of Representatives and then re-elected three times in a row. In 1944 he stood as a candidate in the fourth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1945, the successor of John J. Rooney. Barry died on 20 October 1946 in New York City. His body was then Mary's Cemetery buried in the Mount St. in Flushing. At his death he was nominated for the 80th Congress.