William Patrick Connery Jr. (August 24, 1888 – June 15, 1937) was a
United States representative
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from
. He was born in
Lynn
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on August 24, 1888, the son of
William P. Connery Sr.
William P. Connery Sr. (September 1855 – November 1928) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the 34th mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts. He was the father of U.S. Congressional Representatives Lawrence J. Connery
Lawrence Joseph Conn ...
and brother of
Lawrence Joseph Connery
Lawrence Joseph Connery (October 17, 1895 – October 19, 1941) was a United States House Representative from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Connery was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 17, 1895. He attended the local parochial and pu ...
.
He attended St. Mary's School at Lynn,
Collège de Montréal
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in
Canada
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, and the
College of the Holy Cross
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. He entered the theatrical profession as an
actor
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. He also was a theater manager. During
World War I
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he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and First Regiment, United States Infantry, and served nineteen months in
France
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. He was an electric company employee, he engaged in the manufacture of candy, and was secretary to the
Mayor
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of Lynn.
He was elected as a
Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death. He served as chairman of the Committee on Labor
Seventy-second through
Seventy-fifth Congress
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es, where he was the house sponsor of the first version of H.R. 7200, the
Fair Labor Standards Act, which became law in a later iteration following his death, when it was signed by President Roosevelt on June 25, 1938. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar but did not practice extensively. He died in
Washington, D.C.
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, on June 15, 1937. His interment was in St. Mary's Cemetery in Lynn.
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1888 births
1937 deaths
Catholics from Massachusetts
Politicians from Lynn, Massachusetts
College of the Holy Cross alumni
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army soldiers
Military personnel from Massachusetts
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
20th-century American politicians
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