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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJames Michael CURLEY
(1874-1958)
CURLEY, James Michael, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., November
20, 1874; attended the public schools of Boston; salesman for
Logan, Johnston & Co., a bakers’ and confectioners’
supply firm; engaged in the real-estate and insurance business;
member of the Boston common council in 1900-1902; served in the
State house of representatives in 1902-1904; member of the Boston
board of aldermen 1904-1910; member of the Boston City Council in
1910-1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his
resignation, effective February 4, 1914, having been elected mayor
of Boston, in which capacity he served from 1914 to 1918;
unsuccessful candidate for re-election to mayor of Boston in 1917;
unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United
States House of Representatives in 1918; president of Hibernia
Savings Bank, Boston, Mass.; again served as mayor, 1922-1926 and
1930-1934; unssuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in
1924; Governor of Massachusetts 1935-1937; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for the United States Senate in 1936; unsuccessful
candidate for mayor of Boston in 1937 and again in 1941; member of
the Democratic National Committee in 1941 and 1942; elected to the
Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3,
1943-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in
1946; again elected mayor of Boston on November 6, 1945, and served
until January 1950; unsuccessful candidate for re-election for
mayor of Boston in 1949; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston
in 1951 and 1955; appointed a member of the State Labor Relations
Commission in 1957; died in Boston, Mass., November 12, 1958;
interment in Old Calvary Cemetery.
Bibliography
Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James
Michael Curley. Reading, Mass.”: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co., 1993; Curley, James Michael. I’d Do It
Again; A Record of All My Uproarious Years. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1957. Reprint, New York: Arno Press,
1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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