Richard J. Tonry

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Richard Joseph Tonry (September 3, 1893 - January 17, 1971) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he was educated in the public schools and at Randolph Military Academy (in Montclair, New Jersey]]) and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps (1917-1921) and in 1921 engaged in the real estate and the insurance brokerage business. He served in the New York State Assembly from 1922 to 1929 and was a member of the New York City Board of Aldermen from 1930 to 1934.

Tonry was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress, holding office from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936 and was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1938, 1940, 1942, and 1946. He was journal clerk of the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1946 and in 1947 was appointed a commissioner of appraisal for the corporation counsel in the city of New York. He was a real estate and insurance broker and in 1971 died in Brooklyn; interment was in the United States Military Cemetery on Long Island.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress