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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLawrence Joseph CONNERY
(1895-1941)
CONNERY, Lawrence Joseph,
(brother of William Patrick Connery, Jr.), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Lynn, Essex County, Mass., October 17, 1895;
attended the local parochial and public schools, and St.
Mary’s College, St. Marys, Kans.; employed as a reporter for
the Lynn Item; served on the Mexican border in 1916 with Company A,
Ninth Massachusetts Infantry; served with Company A, One Hundred
and First Regiment, Twenty-sixth Division, from March 25, 1917,
until honorably discharged on March 24, 1919, with nineteen months
service in France; employed as chief purser aboard a United Fruit
Co. liner 1919-1923; secretary to his brother, Congressman William
P. Connery, Jr., 1923-1937; was graduated from the law department
of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1926; engaged in the
office-supplies and printing business in 1934 in Lynn, Mass.;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of his brother, William P. Connery,
Jr.; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses
and served from September 28, 1937, until his death in Arlington,
Va., October 19, 1941; interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery,
Lynn, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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