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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James M. Curley |
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Boston, Massachusetts , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 20, 1874
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| Died | November 12, 1958
(83 years)
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| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | CURLEY, James Michael, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., November 20, 1874; attended the public schools of Boston; salesman for Logan, Johnston & Co., a bakers' and confectioners' supply firm; engaged in the real-estate and insurance business; member of the Boston common council in 1900-1902; served in the State house of representatives in 1902-1904; member of the Boston board of aldermen 1904-1910; member of the Boston City Council in 1910-1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his resignation, effective February 4, 1914, having been elected mayor of Boston, in which capacity he served from 1914 to 1918; unsuccessful candidate for re-election to mayor of Boston in 1917; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in 1918; president of Hibernia Savings Bank, Boston, Mass.; again served as mayor, 1922-1926 and 1930-1934; unssuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1924; Governor of Massachusetts 1935-1937; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in 1936; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston in 1937 and again in 1941; member of the Democratic National Committee in 1941 and 1942; elected to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; convicted on January 18, 1946, of conspiracy and mail fraud; sentence commuted by President Harry S. Truman on November 26, 1947; again elected mayor of Boston on November 6, 1945, and served until January 1950; unsuccessful candidate for re-election for mayor of Boston in 1949; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston in 1951 and 1955; appointed a member of the State Labor Relations Commission in 1957; died in Boston, Mass., November 12, 1958; interment in Old Calvary Cemetery.
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