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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsPeter Francis TAGUE
(1871-1941)
TAGUE, Peter Francis, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., June 4,
1871; attended the public schools; engaged in the blacksmith and
contractor supply business and later in the manufacture of
chemicals; member of the Boston Common Council 1894-1896; member of
the State house of representatives in 1897 and 1898 and in 1913 and
1914; served in the State senate in 1899 and 1900; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1915-March 3, 1919); successfully contested the election of John F.
Fitzgerald to the Sixty-sixth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for
mayor in 1917; elected to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth
Congresses and served from October 23, 1919, to March 3, 1925; was
an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
Congress; resumed the manufacture of chemicals in Boston, Mass.;
appointed assessor of Boston in 1930; chairman of the election
commission of Boston in 1930; appointed postmaster in 1936 and
served until his death in Boston, Mass., September 17, 1941;
interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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