Jerome F. Donovan

Infobox_Congressman
name=Jerome F. Donovan


state=New York
district=21st
term=March 51918 - March 31921
preceded=G. Murray Hulbert
succeeded=Martin C. Ansorge
date of birth=birth date|1872|2|1|mf=y
place of birth=New Haven, Connecticut
date of death=death date and age|1949|11|2|1872|2|1|mf=y
place of death=Stony Creek, Connecticut
spouse=
profession=
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party=Democrat|

Jerome Francis Donovan (February 11872 - November 21949) was a United States Representative from New York.

Donovan was born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 11872. He attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New Haven; captain of Company C, Second Regiment of the Connecticut Army National Guard, 1897 - 1903; member of the State assembly 1901 - 1903; auditor of the city of New Haven 1902 - 1904; secretary of the New Haven civil service commission 1904 - 1906; moved to New York City in 1910 and was admitted to the New York State bar the same year; special deputy attorney general of New York State 1911 - 1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of G. Murray Hulbert; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served from March 51918, to March 31921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; served as deputy attorney general in charge of the legal work of the New York State Labor Department in 1923 and 1924; resumed the practice of law in New York City until his retirement in 1936; moved to Stony Creek, Conn., where he died on November 21949; interment in St. Bernard’s Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.

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