Christopher Daniel SULLIVAN, Congress, NY (1870-1942)

SULLIVAN Christopher Daniel , a Representative from New York; born in New York City, July 14, 1870; attended the public schools, St. James Parochial School, and St. Mary's Academy, in New York City; engaged in the real-estate business in 1904; elected as a member of the State senate in 1906; reelected in 1908, 1910, 1912, and 1914, and served until 1916, when he was elected to Congress; was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-January 3, 1941); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1940; resided in New York City, until his death there August 3, 1942; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Long Island, N.Y.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present