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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Patrick HIGGINS
(1893-1955)
HIGGINS, John Patrick, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., February
19, 1893; attended the public schools and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1917; during the First World War served as an
ensign in the United States Navy 1917-1919; employed as a chemist
1919-1922; student in Boston University Law School and Northeastern
College of Law, Boston, Mass., in 1925 and 1926; was admitted to
the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in Boston; member of the
State house of representatives 1929-1934; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served from
January 3, 1935, until his resignation on September 30, 1937,
having been appointed by Gov. Charles F. Hurley on October 1, 1937,
as chief justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in which
capacity he served until his death; suspended by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur as a judge on the International Military Tribunal for the
Far East at Tokyo, Japan, and resigned in June 1946; died in
Boston, Mass., August 2, 1955; interment in St. Joseph Cemetery,
West Roxbury, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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