![]() McCormack's legislative role in both Social Security and Lend-Lease is dealt with in this portion of the book. During the 1930s, John emerged as the northern urban Democrat most trusted by the Southern Democrats who ran the Congress and by President Franklin D. Throughout his pre-US House career, John was befriended and mentored by Protestants, the wealthy Boston Brahmins and the poorer “Swamp Yankees.” Unlike his occasional mentor, James Michael Curley, John never played the “Irish Catholic card” and established life-long friendships with northern and southern Protestants and Jews. John learned the legislative craft in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, its State House and its Senate where he served as Democratic leader. But the story remained intact and John was able to hold public office for most of the years between 19, including thirty years as a top leader in the House Democratic hierarchy. Had any part of this story been revealed to John’s South Boston Irish constituents, his political career would have ended before it began. All three are buried in unmarked graves including Catherine and Patrick who are buried beside John’s mother in St. Three of John’s siblings did not die as infants but at the ages of 17 (James), 19 (Catherine), and 24 (Patrick). John’s mother was born in Boston, not Ireland and she was deserted and not widowed by John’s father. He did not die when John was a 13 year-old South Boston newsboy but when John was a 37 year-old member of the US House of Representatives. However, John’s father was a Canadian Scot from Prince Edward Island, not an Irishman. Kennedy, and Martin Lomasney, all of whose real lives were identical to his reinvented one. ![]() It was a powerful story and it enabled him to attain public office and to pass the scrutiny of gatekeepers of Boston's Irish - James Michael Curley, John F. It explores McCormack's early life in South Boston and the reinvention of himself as the son of an Irish immigrant who died when John was 13, leaving him as the sole support of his Irish-born widowed mother and two younger brothers. Roosevelt's New Deal and the only Speaker of the House during President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. He was a senior member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee during President Franklin D. McCormack served in the party leadership of the House Democrats from 1940 until his retirement. House of Representatives from 1962 to 1971. ![]() McCormack (Dem-Mass.), Speaker of the U.S. This is the first book-length biography of U.S. (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming, February, 2017). JOHN WILLIAM McCORMACK: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY ![]()
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