MCCORMACK JOHN W.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110060-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 60
• Content Type: BIO

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BIOGRAPHY
MCCORMACK, JOHN W. , Democrat, of Dorchester; born in South
Boston; lawyer; educated in Boston public schools; married to
M. Harriet Joyce of South Boston; member of the constitutional
convention, 1917-18; member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, 1920, 1921, and 1922, and the Massachusetts
Senate, 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926, the last two years as Democratic
leader,4Member of Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third,
Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy- seventh,
Seventy-eight, Seventy-ninth Congresses; majority leader; Member
Eightieth Congress, Democratic whip; Member Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses, majority leader; Member Eighty-third
Congress, Democratic whip; Member Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth
Congresses, majority leader; World War I veteran; awarded honorary
degrees of LL. D. by Boston University, Boston, Mass.; Holy Cross
College, Worcester, Mass.; Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.;
Villanova College, Villanova, Pa.; Tufts College, Medford, Masi.;
Providence College, Providence, R. I.; Stonehill College, North
Easton, Mass.; Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.; Catholic
University of America, Washington, D. C.; and Staley College,
Brookline, Mass.; member of Order of Malta First Class; awarded
the "Peace Medal" of the Third Order of Saint Francis; knight
commander Order of St. Gregory with star; commander, Legion of
Honor, Republic of the Philippines; Bellarmine Medal, 1957,
Louisville, Ky.; commander, Order of Sanchez Duarte y Mella,
Dominican Republic; member of the Knights of Columbus.
* Member Seventieth Congress, filling unexpired term of the late
James A. Gallivan;
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