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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn Parnell THOMAS
(1895-1970)
THOMAS, John Parnell, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson County,
N.J., January 16, 1895; attended the public schools of Allendale,
N.J., the high school at Ridgewood, N.J., and the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; during the First World War served
overseas as a second lieutenant in Company B, Three Hundred and
Sixth Infantry, and first lieutenant and captain in Headquarters,
Regimental Staff of the Fiftieth Infantry, 1917-1919; engaged in
investment securities pursuits 1920-1938 and in the insurance
business in New York City since 1938; member of the borough council
of Allendale, N.J., in 1925; mayor of Allendale 1926-1930; member
of State house of assembly 1935-1937; elected as a Republican to
the Seventy-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served
from January 3, 1937, until his resignation January 2, 1950,
following conviction on charges of salary fraud; chairman,
Committee on Un-American Activities (Eightieth Congress); editor
and publisher of three weekly newspapers in Bergen County, N.J.,
1951-1955; real estate solicitor in 1955 and 1956; defeated for the
Republican nomination for Congress in 1954; engaged in investment
securities; moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., where he died November
19, 1970; cremated; ashes interred in Elmgrove Cemetery, Mystic,
Conn.
Bibliography
Carlson, Lewis H. “J. Parnell Thomas and the House Committee
on Un-American Activities, 1938-1948.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan
State University, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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