Thomas Seery | |
Birth Place: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1945 |
Office: | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly |
Constituency: | 7th District (1983-1985) 13th District (1985-1993) |
Termstart: | January 3, 1983 |
Termend: | January 4, 1993 |
Predecessor: | Joseph Czarnezki |
Successor: | David Cullen |
Thomas Seery (born February 19, 1945) is a lawyer and former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Seery was born on February 19, 1945, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1] He graduated from Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, and in 1971 earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from St. Francis Seminary.[2] He worked as field director for the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin and as a Senior Citizen Advocate for the Family Service Association.[3]
Seery was first elected to the Assembly in 1982 from the 7th Assembly district, which included the northwest corner of Milwaukee, which is also the northwest corner of Milwaukee County. He won a plurality in a four-way Democrat primary (the incumbent, fellow Democrat Michael G. Kirby, was [unsuccessfully] seeking nomination to the State Senate), and won the general election with 9,518 votes to 3,860 for Republican William R. Kerner.