Joseph Leonard Carrigg (February 23, 1901 – February 6, 1989) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Joseph L. Carrigg was born in

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; three of his grandparents were

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immigrants. He graduated from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York in 1922,

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in 1924, and

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in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1925. Carrigg was a member of

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fraternity while at Albany. He was district attorney of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, from 1936 to 1948, and burgess of the borough of Susquehanna from 1948 to 1951. Carrigg was elected as a Republican to the

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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wilson D. Gillette. He was reelected to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses. Carrigg voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958, defeated by Democrat Stanley A. Prokop. After his time in Congress, he served as the Director of Practice for the Internal Revenue Service in

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, from 1959 to 1960. He also worked as secretary to Representative

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of Pennsylvania in 1961. He served as manager of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania from 1963 through 1971.

Sources

Joseph L. Carrigg
at ''The Political Graveyard''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrigg, Joseph L. 1901 births 1989 deaths American people of Irish descent People from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Niagara University alumni Albany Law School alumni County district attorneys in Pennsylvania Internal Revenue Service people Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians