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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyEdward Aloysius KENNEY
(1884-1938)
KENNEY, Edward Aloysius, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Clinton, Worcester County,
Mass., August 11, 1884; attended the public schools; was graduated
from Clinton High School in 1902, from Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass., in 1906, and from the law department of New
York University at New York City in 1908; was admitted to the New
York State bar in 1908 and commenced practice in New York City;
moved to Cliffside Park, Bergen County, N.J., in 1916 and continued
the practice of law; during the First World War served as a member
of the legal advisory draft board of New Jersey in 1917; judge of
recorders court, Cliffside Park, 1919-1923; unsuccessful candidate
for mayor of Cliffside Park as an Independent in 1921, as a
Republican in 1923, and as a Democrat in 1927; chairman of the
Cliffside Park Housing Commission in 1922 and 1923; member of the
Republican county committee in 1925 and 1926; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses
and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
January 27, 1938; interment in St. John’s Cemetery, Clinton,
Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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