Joseph L. Carrigg

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Joseph Leonard Carrigg

| image = Joseph L. Carrigg, Pennsylvania Congressman.jpg

| caption = From 1957's Pocket Congressional Directory of the Eighty-Fifth Congress.

| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|02|23}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|02|06|1901|02|23}}

| birth_place = Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, US

| state = Pennsylvania

| constituency = {{ushr|PA|14|C}} (1951–53)
{{ushr|PA|10|C}} (1953–59)

| term_start = November 6, 1951

| term_end = January 3, 1959

| preceded = Wilson D. Gillette

| succeeded = Stanley A. Prokop

| party = Republican

| spouse = Catherine E. O'Neill

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Joseph Leonard Carrigg (February 23, 1901 – February 6, 1989) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph L. Carrigg was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; three of his grandparents were Irish immigrants.

{{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGHZ-6XF |title= United States Census, 1910 |website= FamilySearch |access-date=March 26, 2018 }} He graduated from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York in 1922, Albany Law School in Albany, New York in 1924, and Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1925. Carrigg was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at Albany. He was district attorney of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, from 1936 to 1948, and burgess of the borough of Susquehanna from 1948 to 1951.

Carrigg was elected as a Republican to the 82nd Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wilson D. Gillette. He was reelected to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses. Carrigg voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42|title=HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|work=GovTrack.us}} He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958, defeated by Democrat Stanley A. Prokop. After his time in Congress, he served as the Director of Practice for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., from 1959 to 1960. He also worked as secretary to Representative William Scranton of Pennsylvania in 1961. He served as manager of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania from 1963 through 1971.

Sources

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  • [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carras-carrigg.html Joseph L. Carrigg] at The Political Graveyard

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| before=Wilson D. Gillette

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| before=Harry P. O'Neill

| after=Stanley A. Prokop

| years=1953–1959

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Category:1901 births

Category:1989 deaths

Category:American people of Irish descent

Category:People from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

Category:Niagara University alumni

Category:Albany Law School alumni

Category:County district attorneys in Pennsylvania

Category:Internal Revenue Service people

Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Category:20th-century American lawyers

Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives