Robert S. Maloney

Robert Sarsfield Maloney was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Lawrence on February 3, 1881. He attended public schools and learned the printer’s trade. Maloney was a fraternal delegate of the American Federation of Labor to the 1907 Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was New England organizer for the International Typographical Union 1908-1912.

He was elected a member of the board of aldermen in 1909 and served as president. Maloney served as director of the Department of Public Health and Charities of Lawrence in 1912 and 1915-1920. He was member of the city council 1916-1920 and served as president. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923), but was not a candidate for renomination. He again served as director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, from 1924 until 1928, published a weekly newspaper and, later, engaged in the restaurant business until his death in Lawrence on November 8, 1934. His interment was in Immaculate Conception Cemetery.
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state=Massachusetts
district=7
before=Michael Francis Phelan
after=William P. Connery
years=March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923