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Michael J. Stack

Michael J. Stack
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 6th district
In office
January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939
Preceded byEdward L. Stokes
Succeeded byFrancis J. Myers
Personal details
BornSeptember 29, 1888
Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, U.K.
DiedDecember 14, 1960 (aged 72)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materSt. Mary's University

Michael Joseph Stack (September 29, 1888 – December 14, 1960) was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939. His grandson is former Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Michael J. Stack III.

Biography

Stack was born in Listowel in County Kerry on the island of Ireland (the entirety of which was then part of the U.K.). He immigrated to the United States in 1903 and settled in Philadelphia. He attended St. Josephs College in Philadelphia and graduated from St. Mary's University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910. He was employed by a railroad company at Detroit, Michigan, from 1910 to 1917. During the First World War enlisted on July 17, 1917, as a private in the Medical Detachment, Three Hundred and Sixtieth Infantry. After the war became engaged in the real estate business in Philadelphia.

Stack was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for renomination in 1938 and was an unsuccessful Royal Oak candidate for reelection in 1938. He resumed the real estate business, and died in Philadelphia. Interment in St. Denis Cemetery in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

References

  • United States Congress. "Michael J. Stack (id: S000773)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-02-22
  • The Political Graveyard

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Edward L. Stokes
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district

1935–1939
Succeeded by
Francis J. Myers


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