Paul J. Kilday

Paul Joseph Kilday (March 29, 1900 - October 12, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.

Born in Sabinal, Texas, Kilday moved with his parents to San Antonio, Texas, in 1904.He attended the public and parochial schools and St. Mary's College, San Antonio, Texas.He was employed as a clerk for the United States Air Force in Washington, D.C. from 1918 to 1921 and as a law clerk, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, in 1921 and 1922.He graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1922.He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Antonio, Texas.He served as first assistant district attorney of Bexar County, Texas from 1935 to 1938.

Kilday was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation September 24, 1961, having been appointed a judge of the Court of Military Appeals and served in this capacity until his death in Washington, D.C., October 12, 1968.He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Virginia.

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