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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / USJohn William McCORMACK
(1891-1980)
McCORMACK, John William, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County,
Mass., December 21, 1891; attended the public schools; studied law
in a private law office; was admitted to the bar in 1913 and began
practice in Boston, Mass.; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1917 and 1918; during the First World War served in
the United States Army in 1917 and 1918; served in the State house
of representatives, 1920-1922; member of the State senate,
1923-1926, serving as Democratic floor leader in 1925 and 1926;
delegate to all Democratic State conventions since 1920; delegate
to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932, 1940, 1944, and
1948; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of James A. Gallivan and on the same
day was elected to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the
Seventy-second and to the nineteen succeeding Congresses and served
from November 6, 1928, to January 3, 1971; chairman, Committee on
Territories (Seventieth Congress), Select Committee on Astronautics
and Space Exploration (Eighty-fifth Congress); majority leader
(Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second
and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), minority whip
(Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses), Speaker of the House of
Representatives (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first Congresses);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second
Congress; resided in Boston, Mass., until his death in Dedham,
Mass., November 22, 1980; interment in Saint Joseph Cemetery, West
Roxbury, Mass.
Bibliography
Gordon, Lester I. “John McCormack and the Roosevelt
Era.” Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1976; Nelson, Garrison.
“Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention of Speaker John W.
McCormack of Boston.” New England Journal of Public
Policy 15 (Fall/Winter 1999/2000): 7-34.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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