Thomas A. Flaherty

Thomas Aloysius Flaherty (December 21, 1898 – April 27, 1965) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Flaherty was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 21, 1898. He attended the public schools, Boston College High School^[4] and Northeastern University Law School.

He served as a private in the United States Army in 1918. Latter he took a job with the United States Veterans’ Administration at Boston. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1934. He then was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John P. Higgins; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from December 14, 1937, to January 3, 1943; was not a candidate for renomination in 1942; served as transit commissioner of the city of Boston 1943-1945; chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities 1946-1953, serving as commissioner 1953-1955; chairman, Board of Review, Assessing Department, city of Boston, 1956–1960; real estate broker and appraiser; was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he died April 27, 1965; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts.

External links

• Thomas A. Flaherty at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Notes

1. ↑ Howard, Richard T. (1935), Public officials of Massachusetts (1935-1936), Boston, MA,: Boston Review, p. Page 160. 
2. ↑ Howard, Richard T. (1939), Public officials of Massachusetts (1939-1940), Boston, MA,: Boston Review, p. Page 9. 
3. ↑ Howard, Richard T. (1937), Public officials of Massachusetts (1937-1938), Boston, MA,: Boston Review, p. 148. 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Romig, Walter (1946), The American Catholic who's who, Volume 7 (1946-1947), Grosse Pointe, MI: Walter Romig, p. Page 143.