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DELANEY, James Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 19,
1901; attended the public schools in Long Island City, N.Y.; was graduated from
the law department of St. Johns College, Brooklyn, N.Y. LL.B., 1931; was
admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice in New York City; assistant
district attorney of Queens County, N.Y., 1936-1944; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; resumed the
practice of law in New York City; elected to the Eighty-first Congress;
reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,
1949, until his resignation December 31, 1978; chairman, Select Committee to
conduct an investigation and study of the use of chemicals, pesticides, and
insecticides in and with respect to food products (Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses), Committee on Rules (Ninety-fifth Congress); was not
a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident
of Key Biscayne, Fla., until his death in Tenafly, N.J., May 24, 1987;
interment in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, N.Y.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: James J. Delaney, Democratic Representative
from New York. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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