William J. Granfield

William Joseph Granfield ( born December 18, 1889 in Springfield, Massachusetts, † May 28, 1959 ) was an American politician. Between 1930 and 1937 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Granfield attended the public schools of his home and then to 1910 the Williston Academy in Easthampton. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his 1916 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his hometown of Springfield in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1917-1919 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was also a 1918 and 1919 a delegate to a meeting to revise the State Constitution. Between 1924 and 1940 he took part in all Democratic National Conventions.

After the death of Mr Will Kirk Kaynor Granfield was at the due election for the second seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 11 February 1930. After three re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1937 at the Congress. Since 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1936 renounced William Granfield on a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was Chief Judge of the District Court in Springfield. This office he held from 1937-1949. He died on 28 May 1959 in his hometown of Springfield.

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