Thomas A. Flaherty Explained

Thomas Aloysius Flaherty
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State:Massachusetts
District:11th
Term:December 14, 1937 – January 3, 1943
Office2:Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Second Suffolk District
Term2:1935-1937
Succeeded2:John Patrick Doherty
Birth Date:December 21, 1898
Death Date:April 27, 1965 (aged 66)
Profession:Civil servant, real estate broker and appraiser
Party:Democrat
Branch:United States Army
Serviceyears:1918
Battles:World 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.

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