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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandFOGARTY, John Edward
(1913—1967)
FOGARTY, John Edward, a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., March 23, 1913; attended La Salle Academy and Providence College; apprenticed as a bricklayer in 1930; moved to Harmony, R.I., and was employed as a bricklayer; served as president of Bricklayers Union No. 1 of Rhode Island; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on December 7, 1944, to enlist in the United States Navy; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from February 7, 1945, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 10, 1967; interment in St. Ann’s Cemetery, Cranston, R.I.
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Bair, Barbara. “‘The Full Light of This Dawn’: Congressman John Fogarty and the Historical Cycle of Community Mental Health Policy in Rhode Island.” Rhode Island History
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Greenberg, Daniel S. “Representative Fogarty: Medical Research Is No Place for Economy.” Science
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Healey, James S. “The Emergence of National Political Leadership For Library Development: The Case of Representative John E. Fogarty.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1973.
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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