James Michael Curley is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Curley (D) defeats incumbent Joseph O’Connell of Dorchester and former Congressman William McNary of South Boston. He lives at 114 Mount Pleasant Avenue. Curley’s campaign slogan is, “Elect a Humble Man: James Michael Curley.” “Although later described as one of the ‘last of the big city urban leaders,’ James Connolly later writes, “Curley is better understood as one of the first of a new breed of urban leaders. He was among the earliest masters of the new mass-mediated, candidate-centered politics, ushered in by Progressive reform.” Curley is reelected in 1912 and elected again in 1942.