Martin L. Sweeney

[2] Sweeney was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Mooney.[1] Sweeney's re-elections in 1934 and 1936 without support from the national Democratic Party led him to continue his independent congressional course in an increasing swing towards non-interventionist politics.In September 1939, syndicated columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen accused Sweeney of anti-Semitism, reporting that he had opposed the appointment of foreign-born Jews to the Cleveland federal bench.Sweeney denounced the bill as an attempt to drag America into World War II on the side of Great Britain.His first cousin was Dr. Francis E. Sweeney, (1894–1964) the prime suspect in the Cleveland Torso Murders (1934–1938) This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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