约翰·威廉·麦科马克,国会,马萨诸塞州(1891-1980)

1891 - 1980

麦科马克,约翰威廉,来自马萨诸塞州的众议员;出生于马萨诸塞州萨福克郡的波士顿。, 1891年12月21日;上过公立学校;在私人律师事务所学习法律;1913年获得律师资格,并开始在马萨诸塞州波士顿执业;1917年和1918年州宪法会议成员;第一次世界大战期间在美国陆军服役,分别是1917年和1918年;1920年至1922年在州众议院任职;1923-1926年担任州参议院议员,1925 -1926年担任民主党议会领袖;自1920年以来,担任所有民主党州大会代表; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932, 1940, 1944, and 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James A. Gallivan and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy-second and to the nineteen succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1928, to January 3, 1971; chairman, Committee on Territories (Seventieth Congress), Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration (Eighty-fifth Congress); majority leader (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), minority whip (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; resided in Boston, Mass., until his death in Dedham, Mass., November 22, 1980; interment in Saint Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury, Mass.

参考书目

约翰·麦科马克与罗斯福时代。博士羞辱。,波士顿大学,1976年;纳尔逊,驻军。《爱尔兰身份政治:波士顿议长约翰·w·麦考马克的重塑》(Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of Speaker John W. McCormack)。新英格兰公共政策杂志15(秋季/冬季1999/2000):7-34。

资料来源:《美国国会传记名录》,1771年至今