Arthur Daniel Healey

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title: "Arthur Daniel Healey" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1889-births", "1948-deaths", "politicians-from-somerville,-massachusetts", "military-personnel-from-massachusetts", "dartmouth-college-alumni", "boston-university-school-of-law-alumni", "judges-of-the-united-states-district-court-for-the-district-of-massachusetts", "united-states-district-court-judges-appointed-by-franklin-d.-roosevelt", "quartermasters", "democratic-party-united-states-representatives-from-massachusetts", "20th-century-united-states-representatives", "members-of-the-house-un-american-activities-committee", "united-states-army-personnel-of-world-war-i", "united-states-army-officers"] description: "American judge (1889-1948)" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Daniel_Healey" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American judge (1889-1948) ::

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Field	Value
name	Arthur Daniel Healey
image	ArthurDHealey.jpg
caption	Democratic United States Representative
office	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
term_start	December 19, 1941
term_end	September 16, 1948
appointer	Franklin D. Roosevelt
predecessor	Elisha Hume Brewster
successor	William T. McCarthy
state1	Massachusetts
district1
term_start1	March 4, 1933
term_end1	August 3, 1942
predecessor1	Frederick W. Dallinger
successor1	Angier Goodwin
birth_name	Arthur Daniel Healey
birth_date
birth_place	Somerville, Massachusetts, US
death_date
death_place	Somerville, Massachusetts, US
resting_place	Oak Grove Cemetery
Medford, Massachusetts, US
party	Democratic
education	Dartmouth College
Boston University School of Law (LL.B.)
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Education and career

Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Healey attended public schools and graduated from Somerville Latin School in 1908. He attended Dartmouth College in 1909 and 1910. Healey received a Bachelor of Laws from Boston University School of Law in 1913, was admitted to the bar in 1914, and engaged in the private practice of law in Boston from 1914 to 1917. On August 9, 1917, he enlisted in the United States Army and rose through the ranks to second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. He was discharged on March 6, 1919. He then returned to his law practice until 1933.

Congressional service

Healey was elected as a Democrat to an open seat for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district beginning with the 73rd United States Congress, taking office on March 4, 1933. In 1938, he became one of the initial members of the newly created House Un-American Activities Committee.

Federal judicial service

Healey served in Congress until he resigned to accept an appointment as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Healey on December 1, 1941, to the seat on that court which had been vacated by Judge Elisha Hume Brewster. Healey was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 16, 1941, and received his commission on December 19, 1941, but remained in Congress until August 3, 1942. Healey thereafter served on the court until his death in Somerville on September 16, 1948. He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts. The Arthur D. Healey School in Somerville is a public elementary school named after him.

References

Sources

|state=Massachusetts |district=8 |before=Frederick W. Dallinger |after= Angier Goodwin |years=1933–1942}}

References

1. {{CongBio. H000423
2. {{FJC Bio. 1013
3. He was returned to the four succeeding Congresses. His name was attached to one significant piece of New Deal legislation, the 1936 [[Walsh–Healey Public Contracts Act. Walsh–Healey Act]], which regulated hours and working conditions for employees working on government contracts.Charles H. Trout, ''Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal'' (NY: Oxford University Press, 1977), 211
4. Richard Gid Powers, ''Not without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 125n

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