Joseph A. Gavagan

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Joseph Andrew Gavagan
Royal H. Weller
Succeeded byJames H. Torrens
Personal details
Born(1892-08-20)August 20, 1892
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 18, 1968(1968-10-18) (aged 76)
Putnam Memorial Hospital, Bennington, Vermont, U.S.
Resting placeGate of Heaven Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic

Joseph Andrew Gavagan (August 20, 1892 – October 18, 1968) was an American

United States representative from New York
from 1929 to 1943.

Early life

Born in New York City on August 20, 1892, he attended the public and parochial schools and graduated from the law department of Fordham University in 1920.[1]

World War I

During

New York; Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; and Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida.[2]
He was a first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps from 1920 to 1925.

Political career

Gavagan was admitted to the bar in 1920, and practiced law in New York City.[1] A Democrat, he was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 22nd D.) in 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929.[1]

Congressman

Gavagan was elected to the

Royal H. Weller
; he was re-elected to the 72nd and to the six succeeding Congresses and held office from November 5, 1929, to December 30, 1943, when he resigned. While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 2 (Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses) and Committee on War Claims (Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses).

Gavagan tried for years to pass an anti-

United States senator in the 1930s and 1940s. As an elder statesman in the House, Pepper admitted that the major regret of his career was that he had not supported the Gavagan Anti-Lynching Law.[citation needed
]

Later life

Gavagan was resigned from Congress after winning election as a justice of the New York Supreme Court; he was re-elected in 1957, and was scheduled to retire on December 31, 1968.[1]

Death and burial

He maintained a summer house in Manchester, Vermont, and died at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington, Vermont on October 18, 1968.[1] He was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.[1]

Family

In November 1933, Gavagan married Dorothy Whitehead, who had been his secretary in his Washington Congressional office.[1] They were the parents of a son, Joseph Jr., and a daughter, Joan, who was the wife of Thomas G. Gorman.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Funeral: Justice Joseph Gavagan".
  2. ^ a b "New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service".
  3. ^ "Miss Gavagan Bride".

Sources

Newspapers

  • "Miss Gavagan Bride". Troy Record. Troy, NY. August 12, 1957. p. 12.
  • "Funeral: Justice Joseph Gavagan". Bennington Banner. Bennington, VT. October 22, 1968. p. 3.

Internet

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New York State Assembly
Preceded by New York State Assembly
New York County, 22nd District
1923–1929 		Succeeded by
Ben Mittler
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Royal H. Weller
 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 21st congressional district
1929–1943 		Succeeded by
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