James A. Haley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames A. Haley
American politician
Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1899
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 06-Aug-1981
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About James A. Haley
- James Andrew Haley (January 4, 1899 â August 6, 1981) was a U.S.
- Representative from Florida. Born in Jacksonville, Alabama, Haley attended the public schools and the University of Alabama.
- During World War I, Haley enlisted in Troop A, Second Cavalry, in April 1917 and served overseas.
- He was an accountant in Sarasota, Florida, from 1920 to 1933.
- He served as general manager of John Ringling estate 1933â1943. On December 4, 1942, Haley married Aubrey Ringling (nÊe Aubrey Barlow Black), the widow of Richard T.
- Ringling who had died in 1931.
- Richard Ringling was the son of Alf T.
- Ringling one of the original Ringling brothers.From 1943 to 1945, he was the first vice president of Ringling Circus and president and director of Ringling Bros.
- and Barnum & Bailey.
- In 1944, a fire broke out at a Ringling Circus show in Hartford, Connecticut that killed 169 persons.
- On the day of the fire Haley was the highest ranking executive traveling with the circus.
- During the subsequent trial, he and five other circus officials pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison.
- He served eight months and in 1945 was returned to Florida, where he received a pardon from Governor Millard F.
- Caldwell.Haley worked for Ringling Bros.
- and Barnum & Bailey from 1946 to 1948.
- He later engaged in newspaper publishing and later in general printing business.
- He served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Sarasota County 1935â1952.
- He served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1949 to 1952.
- He was a delegate to the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Democratic National Conventions. Haley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 â January 3, 1977), during which time he was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v.
- Board of Education..
- He served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses).
- In the high-profile 1970 election for the United States Senate from Florida to choose a successor to Spessard L.
- Holland, Haley strongly supported his fellow Democrat Lawton Chiles, a state senator from Lakeland, who scored an easy victory over the Republican nominee, William C.
- Cramer of St.
- Petersburg.
- Haley called Cramer "little in stature and big in mouth" and suggested that the Republican candidate should "talk less and work more."Haley was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976. Haley died in Sarasota on August 6, 1981 and was interred in Boca Raton Cemetery in Boca Raton.
- The James A.
- Haley Veterans Hospital located in Tampa is named after him.
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