{{Short description|Former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1868–1927)}} {{other people|John Sullivan}} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001055. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Andrew Sullivan | image = John Andrew Sullivan.jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th]] | term = March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907 | preceded = [[Samuel L. Powers]] | succeeded = [[Andrew James Peters]] | office2 = Member of the <br>[[Massachusetts State Senate]]<br>Fifth Suffolk District<ref>{{Citation|last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators Volume IX| page = 140 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1902}}</ref> | term2 = 1900-1902 | preceded2 = [[Charles Hiller Innes]]<ref>{{Citation|last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators Volume XI| page = 140 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1900}}</ref> | succeeded2 = Charles S. Clerke<ref>{{Citation|last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators Volume XII| page = 141 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1903}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1868|5|10}} | birth_place = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1927|5|31|1868|5|10}} | death_place = [[Scituate, Massachusetts]], US | resting_place = [[Holy Cross Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross Cemetery]], [[Malden, Massachusetts]] | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = [[Boston University Law School]] | profession = Lawyer | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] }} '''John Andrew Sullivan''' (May 10, 1868 – May 31, 1927) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], Sullivan attended the common and high schools. He was graduated from the [[Boston University]] Law School in 1896. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] the same year and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. He served as member of the Massachusetts State Senate 1900-1902.

Sullivan was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[58th United States Congress|Fifty-eighth]] and [[59th United States Congress|Fifty-ninth]] Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907).<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=50 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He declined to be a candidate for renomination. He resumed the practice of law in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].

He was appointed a member of the Boston Finance Commission in July 1907 and served until the commission expired. In June 1909, Sullivan became chairman of the permanent [[Boston Finance Commission]]. He resigned in 1914 to become corporation counsel of Boston. Later, he was a lecturer on municipal government at [[Harvard University]] in 1912 and 1913 and then at [[Boston University]] Law School from 1920 to 1925. Sullivan resumed the practice of his profession in Boston.

He died in [[Scituate, Massachusetts]], May 31, 1927 and was interred in [[Holy Cross Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross Cemetery]], [[Malden, Massachusetts]].

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