{{Short description|American judge (1889-1948)}} {{redirect|Arthur Healey|the Connecticut Supreme Court justice|Arthur H. Healey}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Arthur Daniel Healey | honorific_suffix = | image = ArthurDHealey.jpg | alt = | caption = Democratic United States Representative | office = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | term_start = December 19, 1941 | term_end = September 16, 1948 | nominator = | appointer = Franklin D. Roosevelt | predecessor = Elisha Hume Brewster | successor = William T. McCarthy | state1 = Massachusetts | district1 = {{ushr|MA|8|8th}} | term_start1 = March 4, 1933 | term_end1 = August 3, 1942 | predecessor1 = Frederick W. Dallinger | successor1 = Angier Goodwin | pronunciation = | birth_name = Arthur Daniel Healey | birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|12|29}} | birth_place = Somerville, Massachusetts, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|09|16|1889|12|29}} | death_place = Somerville, Massachusetts, US | death_cause = | resting_place = Oak Grove Cemetery<br>Medford, Massachusetts, US | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = Democratic | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Dartmouth College<br>Boston University School of Law (LL.B.) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''Arthur Daniel Healey''' (December 29, 1889 – September 16, 1948) was a Democratic United States Representative from Massachusetts from 1933 to 1942 and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

==Education and career==

Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Healey attended public schools and graduated from Somerville Latin School in 1908. He attended Dartmouth College in 1909 and 1910.<ref name=CB>{{CongBio|H000423|inline=yes}}</ref> Healey received a Bachelor of Laws from Boston University School of Law in 1913,<ref name=fjc>{{FJC Bio|1013|nid=1382001|name=Arthur Daniel Healey<!--(1889–1948)-->}}</ref> was admitted to the bar in 1914,<ref name=CB/> and engaged in the private practice of law in Boston from 1914 to 1917.<ref name=fjc/> On August 9, 1917, he enlisted in the United States Army and rose through the ranks to second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. He was discharged on March 6, 1919.<ref name=CB/> He then returned to his law practice until 1933.<ref name=fjc/>

==Congressional service==

Healey was elected as a Democrat to an open seat for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district beginning with the 73rd United States Congress, taking office on March 4, 1933.<ref name=CB/> He was returned to the four succeeding Congresses. His name was attached to one significant piece of New Deal legislation, the 1936 Walsh–Healey Act, which regulated hours and working conditions for employees working on government contracts.<ref>Charles H. Trout, ''Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal'' (NY: Oxford University Press, 1977), 211</ref> In 1938, he became one of the initial members of the newly created House Un-American Activities Committee.<ref>Richard Gid Powers, ''Not without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 125n</ref>

==Federal judicial service==

Healey served in Congress until he resigned to accept an appointment as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.<ref name=CB/> President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Healey on December 1, 1941, to the seat on that court which had been vacated by Judge Elisha Hume Brewster.<ref name=fjc/> Healey was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 16, 1941, and received his commission on December 19, 1941,<ref name=fjc/> but remained in Congress until August 3, 1942. Healey thereafter served on the court until his death in Somerville on September 16, 1948.<ref name=fjc/> He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts.<ref name=CB/> The Arthur D. Healey School in Somerville is a public elementary school named after him.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}}

==See also== * List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * {{CongBio|H000423}} * {{FJC Bio|1013|nid=1382001|name=Arthur Daniel Healey<!--(1889–1948)-->}}

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