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GALLAGHER, Cornelius Edward, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Bayonne, Hudson County,
N.J., March 2, 1921; attended the local schools of Bayonne; was graduated from
John Marshall College, Jersey City, N.J., in 1946 and from John Marshall Law
School, LL.B., 1948; additional studies at New York University in 1948 and
1949; commanded an Infantry rifle company in General Pattons Third Army in
Europe and served from September 1941 until discharged as a captain in November
1946; served one year during the Korean War; was admitted to the bar in 1949
and commenced the practice of law in Bayonne, N.J.; served on faculty of
Rutgers University in 1945 and 1946; director of the Broadway National Bank;
elected to the Hudson County Board of Freeholders in 1953 and resigned in 1956;
appointed commissioner of New Jersey Turnpike Authority in 1956; delegate to
the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and 1960; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1959-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the
Ninety-third Congress; vice president of Baron/Canning International in New
York City; is a resident of Columbia, N.J.
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