Michael L. Igoe

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Michael Lambert Igoe (April 16, 1885 - August 21, 1967) was a United States Representative from Illinois. He was educated in the parochial schools and De La Salle Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1908. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Chicago.

Igoe was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1913-1930. He served as chief assistant in the United States attorney’s office in Chicago 1915-1917 and was a member of the board of South Park Commissioners 1924-1934. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928 and a member of the Democratic National Committee 1930-1932. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress, serving from January 3, 1935, until his resignation effective June 2, 1935, having been appointed a United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois on May 16, 1935. He served until his appointment as United States district judge on March 4, 1939, in which capacity he served until 1965. He died in Chicago on August 21, 1967 and was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Park Ridge, Illinois.