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CULLEN, Thomas Henry

CULLEN, Thomas Henry
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CULLEN, Thomas Henry
1868–1944

Office

Representative

State/Territory

New York

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

66th (1919–1921), 67th (1921–1923), 68th (1923–1925), 69th (1925–1927), 70th (1927–1929), 71st (1929–1931), 72nd (1931–1933), 73rd (1933–1935), 74th (1935–1937), 75th (1937–1939), 76th (1939–1941), 77th (1941–1943), 78th (1943–1945)

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Concise Biography

CULLEN, Thomas Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 29, 1868; attended the local parochial schools, and was graduated from St. Francis College, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1880; became engaged in the marine insurance and shipping business; member of the Senate assembly 1896-1898; served in the State senate 1899-1918; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions from 1912 through 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 1944; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Bibliography / Further Reading

United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Thomas Henry Cullen, late a Representative from New York. Seventy-eighth Congress, second session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.

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