Joseph Edward Casey (December 27, 1898 – September 1, 1980) was a
United States representative
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from
. Born in
Clinton, he attended the public schools, served as a private in the
United States Army
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at
Fort Lee,
Virginia
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, in 1918, and graduated from the
Boston University School of Law
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in 1920. He was admitted to the
bar
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that year and commenced practice in Clinton. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention
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s in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944, and was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1943). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the
Seventy-eighth Congress
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and was
an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate
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. He resumed the practice of law in Boston and in
Washington, D.C.
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, where he resided until his death. Interment was in
Arlington National Cemetery
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, Section 1, Lot 761-B.
His son is novelist
John Casey. His daughter Jane Dudley Casey was the first wife of
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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, who later became President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. His granddaughter is journalist and writer
Alex Kuczynski
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.
See also
*
List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee
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References
External links
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1898 births
1980 deaths
United States Army soldiers
Boston University School of Law alumni
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
People from Clinton, Massachusetts
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
20th-century American politicians