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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyCornelius Edward GALLAGHER
(1921- )
GALLAGHER, Cornelius
Edward, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Bayonne,
Hudson County, N.J., March 2, 1921; attended the local schools of
Bayonne; was graduated from John Marshall College, Jersey City,
N.J., in 1946 and from John Marshall Law School, LL.B., 1948;
additional studies at New York University in 1948 and 1949;
commanded an Infantry rifle company in General Patton’s Third
Army in Europe and served from September 1941 until discharged as a
captain in November 1946; served one year during the Korean War;
was admitted to the bar in 1949 and commenced the practice of law
in Bayonne, N.J.; served on faculty of Rutgers University in 1945
and 1946; director of the Broadway National Bank; elected to the
Hudson County Board of Freeholders in 1953 and resigned in 1956;
appointed commissioner of New Jersey Turnpike Authority in 1956;
delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and
1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third
Congress; vice president of Baron/Canning International in New York
City; is a resident of Columbia, N.J.
Bibliography
Felber, Ron. The Privacy War: One Congressman, J. Edgar Hoover,
and the Fight for the Fourth Amendment. Montvale, NJ: Croce
Publishing Group, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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