Joseph C. O'Mahoney

Joseph C. O'Mahoney was a Senator from Wyoming; born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass., November 5 1884; attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City; moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1908 and engaged as a reporter on the Boulder Herald; moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1916 and served as city editor of the Cheyenne State Leader; executive secretary to Senator John B. Kendrick 1917-1920; graduated from the Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Washington, D.C.; member of conference on uniform State laws 1925-1926; city attorney of Cheyenne, Wyo., 1929-1931; Democratic national committeeman 1929-1934; appointed First Assistant Postmaster General in 1933, and served until December 31 1933, when he resigned to become a Senator; appointed on December 18 1933, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John B. Kendrick, and elected on November 6 1934, to fill this vacancy and also for the term commencing January 3 1935; reelected in 1940 and again in 1946, and served from January 1 1934, to January 3 1953; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Economic Report (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952; elected on November 2 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lester C. Hunt, and also elected for the full term commencing January 3 1955, and served from November 29 1954, to January 3 1961; was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Cheyenne, Wyo.; died in the naval hospital, Bethesda, Md., December 1 1962; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.

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