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Michael Joseph Stack (September 29, 1888December 14, 1960) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from
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from 1935 to 1939. His grandson is former
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Michael J. Stack III Michael Joseph Stack III (born June 5, 1963) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 33rd lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Pe ...
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Biography

Stack was born in
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in
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on the
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(the entirety of which was then part of
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). He immigrated to the
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in 1903 and settled in
Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
. He attended St. Josephs College in Philadelphia and graduated from St. Mary's University in
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, in 1910. He was employed by a railroad company in
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, from 1910 to 1917. During the First World War, he enlisted on July 17, 1917, as a private in the Medical Detachment, Three Hundred and Sixtieth Infantry. After the war, he became engaged in the real estate business in Philadelphia. Stack was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for renomination in
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and was an unsuccessful
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candidate for reelection in 1938. He resumed the real estate business, and died in Philadelphia. He is interred in St. Denis Cemetery in
Havertown, Pennsylvania Havertown is a residential suburban unincorporated community in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is located approximately 9 miles west of the center of Philadelphia. Havertown's ZIP Code is 19083 and "Havertown" is a posta ...
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References

Retrieved on 2009-02-22
The Political Graveyard


External links

* 1888 births 1960 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia People from Listowel, County Kerry Politicians from County Kerry American military personnel of World War I Irish emigrants to the United States United States Army soldiers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub