SULLIVAN, Patrick Joseph, Congress, PA (1877-1946)

SULLIVAN, Patrick Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., October 12, 1877; attended public and parochial schools; employed in the Homestead Axle Works, Homestead, Pa., 1890-1900, and in the steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pa., 1900-1909; member of the city council 1906-1909; served as alderman 1910-1929; police magistrate 1916-1923; member of the board of assessment and tax revision, Allegheny County, Pa., 1923-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; city police magistrate in Pittsburgh, Pa., from 1936 until his death there December 31, 1946; interment in Calvary Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present