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Thomas Aloysius Flaherty
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 11th district
In office
December 14, 1937 – January 3, 1943
Preceded byJohn Patrick Higgins
Succeeded byJames Michael Curley
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Second Suffolk District
In office
1935-1937
Succeeded byJohn Patrick Doherty
Personal details
BornDecember 21, 1898
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedApril 27, 1965 (aged 66)
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materNortheastern University
ProfessionCivil servant, real estate broker and appraiser
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of service1918
Battles/warsWorld War I

Thomas Aloysius Flaherty (December 21, 1898 – April 27, 1965) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Flaherty was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 21, 1898. He attended the public schools, Boston College High School and Northeastern University Law School.

He served as a private in the United States Army in 1918. Later he took a job with the United States Veterans' Administration in Boston before he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1934. In 1937, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John P. Higgins and was reelected to the next two succeeding Congresses, serving from December 14, 1937, to January 3, 1943. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942.

Later in his career, he served in positions within the city of Boston including as transit commissioner from 1943 to 1945 and chairman of the Board of Review within the Assessing Department in the city of Boston from 1956 to 1960. Flaherty was also chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities from 1946 to 1953 and served as the commissioner from 1953 to 1955. A real estate broker and appraiser, he was a resident of Charlestown, where he died on April 27, 1965. He was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts.

See also

Notes

  1. Howard, Richard T. (1935), Public officials of Massachusetts (1935-1936), Boston, MA: Boston Review, p. 160
  2. Howard, Richard T. (1939), Public officials of Massachusetts (1939-1940), Boston, MA: Boston Review, p. Page 9
  3. Howard, Richard T. (1937), Public officials of Massachusetts (1937-1938), Boston, MA: Boston Review, p. 148
  4. Romig, Walter (1946), The American Catholic who's who, Volume 7 (1946-1947), Grosse Pointe, MI: Walter Romig, p. 143

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Preceded byJohn P. Higgins Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 11th congressional district
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