Lawrence J. Connery

Who was Lawrence J. Connery?

Lawrence Joseph Connery was a United States House Representative from Massachusetts.

Connery was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 17, 1895. He attended the local parochial and public schools, and St. Mary's College, St. Marys, Kansas.

He was employed as a reporter for The Lynn Item; served on the Mexican border in 1916 with Company A, Ninth Massachusetts Infantry; served with Company A, One Hundred and First Regiment, Twenty-sixth Division, from March 25, 1917, until honorably discharged on March 24, 1919, with nineteen months service in France.

He went on to work as chief purser aboard a United Fruit Co. liner 1919-1923; as a secretary to his brother, Congressman William Patrick Connery, Jr..

He graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C. in 1926; engaged in the office-supplies and printing business in 1934 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Began his political career when he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, William.