William Gallagher (politician)

William James Gallagher ( born May 13, 1875 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; † August 13, 1946 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1945 and 1946 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Gallagher attended the common schools, including North High School. Between 1895 and 1896 he was employed by a newspaper. There he checked proofreading their articles on error. In 1897, Gallagher moved to Spokane, Washington. There he took over the same job at a workers' newspaper. After his return to Minneapolis he worked until 1919 as a driver and an employee for a trucking company. From 1919 to 1927 he worked as a street sweeper in road office of Hennepin County. The same job he held from 1927 until his retirement in 1942 for the city of Minneapolis from. Only after his retirement, he became politically active.

Gallagher was a member of the Democratic Party, which with the Farmer-Labor Party called since 1944 after the merger in Minnesota Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party. In the congressional elections of 1944 he was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 3, 1945 the successor of Richard Pillsbury Gale of the Republican Party. For the elections of 1946 he was nominated again. However, he did not live to the election date. He died on August 13, 1946 in Rochester. During his short time in Congress ended the Second World War. William Gallagher was buried in his hometown of Minneapolis.