Neil Gallagher (American politician)

Cornelius Edward Gallagher, a Representative from New Jersey, born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., March 2, 1921. He attended the local schools of Bayonne, was graduated from John Marshall College, in 1946 and from John Marshall Law School, LL.B. in 1948 and engaged in additional studies at New York University in 1948 and 1949. He commanded an Infantry rifle company in General Patton’s Third Army in Europe and served from September 1941 until discharged as a captain in November 1946. He served one year during the Korean War and was admitted to the bar in 1949. He was appointed director of the Broadway National Bank. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973)