Augustine Lonergan

{{More citations needed|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Augustine Lonergan |image = Augustine Lonergan (cropped).jpg |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = Connecticut |term_start = March 4, 1933 |term_end = January 3, 1939 |predecessor = Hiram Bingham III |successor = John A. Danaher |state2 = Connecticut |district2 = 1st |term_start2 = March 4, 1913 |term_end2 = March 3, 1915 |preceded2 = E. Stevens Henry |succeeded2 = P. Davis Oakey |term_start3 = March 4, 1917 |term_end3 = March 3, 1921 |preceded3 = P. Davis Oakey |succeeded3 = E. Hart Fenn |term_start4 = March 4, 1931 |term_end4 = March 3, 1933 |preceded4 = E. Hart Fenn |succeeded4 = Herman P. Kopplemann |birth_date = {{birth date|1874|5|20}} |birth_place = Thompson, Connecticut, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1947|10|18|1874|5|20}} |death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. |party = Democratic }} '''Augustine John Lonergan''' (May 20, 1874{{spaced ndash}}October 18, 1947) was a U.S. senator and representative from Connecticut. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a senator from 1933 to 1939.

==Biography== Lonergan was born in Thompson, Connecticut, to a father from Ireland and a Canadian mother of Irish descent.<ref> {{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZQ-G8W |title= United States Census, 1880 |website= FamilySearch |accessdate=April 26, 2018 }}</ref> He attended the public schools in Rockville and Bridgeport and graduated from Yale Law School in 1902. He was admitted to the bar in 1901 and practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a members of the city planning commission and was assistant corporation counsel of Hartford from 1910 to 1912.

After a failed campaign in 1910, Lonergan was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 1st congressional district in 1912, serving from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1915. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 but was reelected in 1916 and 1918, serving again from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1921. He 1920, he ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Frank B. Brandegee, losing heavily, and ran again in 1928, losing to Republican nominee Frederic C. Walcott. He was again elected to the House in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to March 3, 1933. He was elected to the Senate in 1932, narrowly defeating Hiram Bingham III amidst the Democrat landslide that year, and served one term from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1939. He was defeated for reelection by Republican John A. Danaher in 1938.

Lonergan practiced law in Washington, D.C. until his death on October 18, 1947. He was interred at Mount St. Benedict's Cemetery in Hartford.

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