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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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DELACY, Emerson Hugh, a Representative from Washington; born in Seattle, King County,
Wash., May 9, 1910; attended the Queen Anne public schools; was graduated from
the University of Washington at Seattle, in 1932; received M.A. degree in 1932;
taught English at the University of Washington 1933-1937; member of the city
council of Seattle 1937-1940; employed as a shipyard machinist 1940-1944;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3,
1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress;
engaged in 1947 as editor of monthly Bulletin of Machinists Union, Seattle,
Wash.; State director of Progressive Party of Ohio, 1948-1950; worked as
carpenter in Cleveland, Ohio, 1951-1958, except for employment during part of
1952 in the presidential campaign of the Progressive Party; continued in
carpentry in Los Angeles, 1959-1960, and became general building contractor
until retirement in 1967; pursued graduate studies in philosophy at San
Fernando Valley State College; was a resident of Van Nuys, Calif. until his
death in Soquel, Calif. on August 19, 1986.
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