Francis Thomas Maloney (March 31, 1894January 16, 1945) was a

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from

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from 1933 to 1935 and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945. He was a

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Early life

Maloney was born in Meriden,

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, Connecticut, March 31, 1894. He was a

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and his father and maternal grandparents were from

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. He attended public and parochial schools of Meriden. From 1914 to 1921, he worked as a newspaper reporter, except for 1917–1918, when he served as a seaman first class in the

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during the

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. He then engaged in real estate and insurance business.

Political career

Maloney served as

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of Meriden from 1929 to 1933. He was elected as a

to the

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of the seventy-third Congress and served from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935, in the session that was shorter than the usual two years because the time when the sessions would open was changed. He did not seek reelection, because he had been nominated for the Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 1934, re-elected in 1940 and served until his death in 1945. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the seventy-seventh through seventy-ninth Congresses. Maloney was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Connecticut in

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, and

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. He died in Meriden, Connecticut, on January 16, 1945, and was interred in Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Legacy

One of the two public

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s in Meriden, Connecticut, is named for Maloney.''Cf.'
Francis T. Maloney High School

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Early life

Political career

Legacy

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