Lawrence Joseph Connery

Background

Connery was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 17, 1895.

Education

He attended the local parochial and public schools, and Saint Mary"s College, Saint Marys, Kansas.

Career

He was employed as a reporter for The Lynn Item. Served on the Mexican border in 1916 with Company A, 9th Massachusetts Infantry. Served with Company A, Company A, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division from March 25, 1917, until honorably discharged on March 24, 1919, with nineteen months service in France.

He went on to work as chief purser aboard a United Fruit Company ship (1919-1923).

He graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia in 1926. Engaged in the office-supplies and printing business in 1934 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

He was re-elected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from September 28, 1937 until his death in Arlington, Virginia on October 19, 1941, aged 46. He was interred in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Lynn, Massachusetts.

Connections

Father:

William Patrick Connery

Mother:

Mary Theresa (Haven) Connery

Spouse:

Geneva Mildred Butler