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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn Joseph EAGAN
(1872-1956)
EAGAN, John Joseph, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Hoboken, N.J., January 22,
1872; was graduated from public, parochial, and private schools; in
1894 founded and was president of the Eagan Schools of Business in
Hoboken, Union Hill, and Hackensack, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y.;
first vice president of the Merchants & Manufacturers’
Trust Co.; collector of taxes of Union, N.J., 1896-1899; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1921); delegate to the
Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; again elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4,
1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1924; resumed his former business pursuits; member and president of
the Board of Education, Weehawken, N.J., 1932-1940; appointed
collector of taxes and custodian of school moneys of Weehawken in
1940; collector of taxes 1941-1955; resided in Weehawken, N.J.,
until his death in Paramus, N.J., June 13, 1956; interment in
Rosendale Cemetery, Tillson, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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