Thomas A. Flaherty

{{short description|American politician}} {{other people||Thomas Flaherty (disambiguation)}} {{Cleanup Congress bio}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name=Thomas Aloysius Flaherty | image=ThomasAFlaherty.jpg | state=[[Massachusetts]] | district=[[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th]] | term=December 14, 1937 – January 3, 1943 | preceded=[[John Patrick Higgins]] | succeeded=[[James Michael Curley]] | office2=Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]<br>Second Suffolk District<ref>{{Citation| first=Richard T. | last=Howard | title = Public officials of Massachusetts (1935-1936)| page = 160 | publisher = Boston Review | location = Boston, MA | year = 1935}}</ref> | term2=1935-1937<ref>{{Citation| first=Richard T. | last=Howard | title = Public officials of Massachusetts (1939-1940)| page = Page 9 | publisher = Boston Review | location = Boston, MA | year = 1939}}</ref> | preceded2= | succeeded2=John Patrick Doherty<ref>{{Citation| first=Richard T. | last=Howard | title = Public officials of Massachusetts (1937-1938)| page = 148 | publisher = Boston Review | location = Boston, MA | year = 1937}}</ref> | birth_date=December 21, 1898 | birth_place=[[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date=April 27, 1965 (aged 66) | death_place=[[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown, Massachusetts]], U.S. | resting_place=[[Holy Cross Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross Cemetery]], [[Malden, Massachusetts]] | spouse= | children= | alma_mater=[[Northeastern University]] | profession=Civil servant, real estate broker and appraiser | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] | branch= [[United States Army]] | service_years=1918 | rank= | unit= | battles =[[World War I]] | awards= }}

'''Thomas Aloysius Flaherty''' (December 21, 1898 – April 27, 1965) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Flaherty was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], December 21, 1898. He attended the public schools, Boston College High School<ref name="Romig1946">{{Citation| first=Walter | last=Romig | title = The American Catholic who's who, Volume 7 (1946-1947)| page = 143 | publisher = Walter Romig | location = Grosse Pointe, MI | year = 1946}}</ref> and [[Northeastern University Law School]].

He served as a private in the [[United States Army]] in 1918. Later he took a job with the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|United States Veterans' Administration]] in Boston before he was elected to the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1934. In 1937, he was elected as a Democrat to the [[75th United States Congress|Seventy-fifth Congress]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John Patrick Higgins|John P. Higgins]] and was reelected to the next two succeeding Congresses, serving from December 14, 1937, to January 3, 1943. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942.

Later in his career, he served in positions within the city of Boston including as transit commissioner from 1943 to 1945 and chairman of the Board of Review within the Assessing Department in the city of Boston from 1956 to 1960. Flaherty was also chairman of the [[Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities]] from 1946 to 1953 and served as the commissioner from 1953 to 1955. A real estate broker and appraiser, he was a resident of [[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown]], where he died on April 27, 1965. He was interred at [[Holy Cross Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Malden, Massachusetts]].

==See also== * [[1935–1936 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1937–1938 Massachusetts legislature]]

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==External links== * {{CongBio|F000183}}

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