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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutJohn Joseph SMITH
(1904-1980)
SMITH, John Joseph, a
Representative from Connecticut; born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., January 25, 1904; attended the public schools; B.A.,
Yale University, 1925; law department of the same university,
LL.B., 1927; research fellow, Yale Law School, 1927-1928; was
admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in Waterbury,
Conn.; served in the Field Artillery Reserves 1925-1935; elected as
a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his
resignation on November 4, 1941, having been appointed a United
States district judge for the district of Connecticut; appointed
judge for the Second Circuit Court of the United States on
September 2, 1960, and served until November 6, 1971, when he
retired to become a senior judge; resided in West Hartford, Conn.,
until his death in Waterbury, Conn., February 16, 1980; interment
in Calvary Cemetery, Waterbury.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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