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  Healey, James C.
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NameJames C. Healey
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Southampton, New York , United States
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Born December 24, 1909
Died December 16, 1981 (71 years)
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Info born in the Bronx, New York City, December 24, 1909; attended the public schools of New York City; B.S., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1933; attended Fordham; LL.B., St. John’s Law School, 1936; admitted to the New York bar in 1937; attorney, New York State Labor Relations Board, 1938-1940; assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York, 1940-1943; served in the United States Navy, lieutenant, 1943-1946; assistant corporation counsel for the city of New York, 1946-1948; counsel to the borough president of the Bronx, 1948-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress, by special election, February 7, 1956, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sidney A. Fine; reelected to the Eighty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from February 7, 1956, to January 3, 1965; unsuccessful candidate in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, and 1968; resided in Southampton, N.Y. until his death there on December 16, 1981; interment at Sacred Heart Cemetery.


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  06/02/1964 NY District 21 - D Primary Lost 47.05% (-5.89%)
  11/06/1962 NY District 21 Won 67.41% (+46.38%)
  09/06/1962 NY District 21 - D Primary Won 50.09% (+6.70%)
  11/08/1960 NY District 22 Won 64.99% (+44.39%)
  11/04/1958 NY District 22 Won 65.24% (+44.70%)
  11/06/1956 NY District 22 Won 64.06% (+39.38%)
  02/07/1956 NY District 22 Special Won 72.25% (+57.41%)
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