Lawrence Joseph Connery (October 17, 1895 – October 19, 1941) was a United States House Representative from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Connery was born in
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
on October 17, 1895. He attended the local parochial and public schools, and
St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Kansas.
He was employed as a reporter for ''
The Lynn Item''; served on the Mexican border in 1916 with Company A, 9th Massachusetts Infantry; served with Company A, Company A, 101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Division from March 25, 1917, until honorably discharged on March 24, 1919, with nineteen months service in France.
He went on to work as chief purser aboard a United Fruit Company ship (1919–23). From 1923-37, he was secretary (chief administrative assistant) for his brother, Congressman
William Patrick Connery, Jr.
He graduated from
Georgetown University Law School
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,
Washington, D.C.
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in 1926; engaged in the office-supplies and printing business in 1934 in
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
.
Last years and death
Connery was elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth Congress
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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother,
William
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. He was re-elected to the
Seventy-sixth and
Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from September 28, 1937 until his death from a heart attack
in
Arlington, Virginia
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...
on October 19, 1941, aged 46. He was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery, Lynn, Massachusetts.
See also
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
External links
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1895 births
1941 deaths
Saint Mary's Academy and College alumni
Politicians from Lynn, Massachusetts
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Massachusetts National Guard personnel
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
20th-century American politicians
Catholics from Massachusetts