{{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 Party (United States)|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 = [[List of federal judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt|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 Party (United States)|Democratic]] | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = [[Dartmouth College]]<br>[[Boston University School of Law]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|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 Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[United States Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]] from 1933 to 1942 and a [[United States federal judge|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 [[Democratic Party (United States)|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 Public Contracts Act|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|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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