Peter Francis Tague

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Peter Francis Tague (June 4, 1871 – September 17, 1941) was a member of the United States House of Representatives Massachusetts.

He attended the public schools then engaged in the blacksmith and contractor supply business and later in the manufacture of chemicals. Tague served in the following political positions:

member of the Boston Common Council 1894-1896
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1897 and 1898 and in 1913 and 1914
State senator in 1899 and 1900
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919)
successfully contested the election of John F. Fitzgerald to the Sixty-sixth Congress
unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 1917
elected to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses and served from October 23, 1919, to March 3, 1925
was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress.

In 1921 he introduced legislation to investigate the KKK.

Tague resumed the manufacture of chemicals in Boston in 1924. He was appointed assessor of Boston in 1930 and chairman of the election commission of Boston in 1930. In 1936 he was appointed postmaster and served until his death. He died in Boston on September 17, 1941 and was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts.