Torbert H. Macdonald

A Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Everett, Middlesex County, Mass. , June 6, 1917. Attended Malden public schools, Medford High School, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Was graduated from Harvard University, B. A. , 1940 and from its law school, LL. B. , 1946. Served in the United States Navy as a PT boat commander in the Southwest Pacific 1942-1944. Awarded Silver Star Combat Award and Presidential Citation. Was admitted to the bar in 1946 and commenced the practice of law in Boston, Mass. Member of the National Labor Relations Board for New England area 1948-1952. Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his death, May 21, 1976, in Bethesda, Md. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass.