John Harold Flannery was a Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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J. Harold Flannery was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania

Pittston, Pennsylvania

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. He graduated from the Wyoming Seminary

Wyoming Seminary

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 in Kingston, Pennsylvania

Kingston, Pennsylvania

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, in 1917 and from the Dickinson School of Law

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 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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, in 1920. During the First World War, Flannery served as a private in the United States Army

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 and was honorably discharged in 1918 He was the solicitor for Pittston City from 1926 to 1930, and served as assistant district attorney of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

- Demographics :As of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% were of some other race, and 1.5% were two or more races. 6.7% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino ancestry...

, from 1932 to 1936.

Flannery was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth

75th United States Congress

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, Seventy-sixth

76th United States Congress

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, and Seventy-seventh

77th United States Congress

-Major events:* December 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor* December 8, 1941: Joint Session of Congress met to hear President Roosevelt deliver his "Day of Infamy" speech...

 Congresses. He served from January 3, 1937, until his resignation on January 3, 1942, to become judge of the common pleas court of Luzerne County. He was reelected in 1951 for a ten-year term and served until his death in Bethesda, Maryland

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. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1944

1944 Democratic National Convention

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 and in 1960

1960 Democratic National Convention

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