James Michael Quigley was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

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James Quigley was born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

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. He graduated from Villanova University

Villanova University

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 in 1939 and from the Dickinson School of Law

Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...

 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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 in 1942. He served in the United States Navy

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 from 1943 to 1946, engaged in the Philippine and Okinawa

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 campaigns, and after V-J Day served with the occupation forces in Korea

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 and China

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Upon his return to the US, Quigley resumed his law practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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. He was unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1950

United States House election, 1950

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. He was elected as a Democrat to the 84th United States Congress

84th United States Congress

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. He was and unsuccessful candidate in 1956

United States House election, 1956

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 and in 1957 he became the administrative assistant to Senator Joseph S. Clark

Joseph S. Clark

Joseph Sill Clark, Jr. was a U.S. lawyer and Democratic Party politician in the mid-20th century. He served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 until 1956, and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 until 1969...

 of Pennsylvania, and assistant attorney general for Pennsylvania in 1958. He was elected to the 86th United States Congress

86th United States Congress

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 in 1958

United States House election, 1958

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, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960

United States House election, 1960

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, losing to Republican George A. Goodling. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Federal and State matters on February 24, 1961, serving until January 1966. He was appointed Commissioner of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration serving from January 1966 to January 1968. He worked as vice president of the United States Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc., from 1968 to 1986.

Quigley is the only living former congressman to have won Pennsylvania's 19th Congressional District while running as a Democrat.