Francis T. Maloney

Maloney was born in Meriden, Connecticut, on March 31, 1894. He was a Catholic and his father and maternal grandparents were from Ireland.[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html The Political Graveyard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009152639/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html |date=2009-10-09 }}, Index to Politicians: Maloney.

{{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M97Q-D3L |title= United States Census, 1900 |website= FamilySearch |access-date=April 26, 2018 }} He attended public and parochial schools of Meriden. From 1914 to 1921, he worked as a newspaper reporter, except for 1917–1918, when he served as a seaman first class in the US Navy during the First World War. He then engaged in real estate and insurance business.[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 Maloney, Francis Thomas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106160800/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 |date=2010-01-06 }} at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Maloney served as mayor of Meriden from 1929 to 1933.[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 Maloney, Francis Thomas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106160800/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 |date=2010-01-06 }} at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. This time frame is, however, noted as 1930-1933 at [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html The Political Graveyard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009152639/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html |date=2009-10-09 }}. He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives of the seventy-third Congress and served from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935, in the session that was shorter than the usual two years because the time when the sessions would open was changed. He did not seek reelection, because he had been nominated for the Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 1934, re-elected in 1940 and served until his death in 1945. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the seventy-seventh through seventy-ninth Congresses.[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 Maloney, Francis Thomas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106160800/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000088 |date=2010-01-06 }} at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Maloney was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Connecticut in 1936, 1940, and 1944.[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html The Political Graveyard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009152639/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html |date=2009-10-09 }}, Index to Politicians: Maloney.

Maloney was admitted to the Meriden Hospital on January 1, 1945, with what was thought to be a bad cold and developed into influenza. He suffered a heart attack at the hospital on January 10, and he was determined to be suffering from coronary thrombosis. He suffered a second heart attack at the hospital at 10:45 a.m. on January 16, and died within seconds.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal/167965092/|title=U.S. Senator Maloney Dies|work=The Meriden Journal|date=January 16, 1945}} He was interred in Sacred Heart Cemetery.

One of the two public high schools in Meriden, Connecticut, is named for Maloney.Cf. [http://maloney.meriden.k12.ct.us/ Francis T. Maloney High School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124132501/http://maloney.meriden.k12.ct.us/ |date=2009-11-24 }}.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

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