Talk:Frank X. McCloskey

Can someone verify the year for the renaming ceremony of the east post office? Chris Eller 15:01, 5 October 2006 (EDT)

Office of the Press Secretary
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, the President signed the following bills into law:
H.R. 3379, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building;

108th CONGRESS 1st Session
H. R. 3379
AN ACT
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the "Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, shall be known and designated as the "Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building".

SEC. 2. REFERENCES.

Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the "Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building".

Passed the House of Representatives November 5, 2003.

--BirdieGalyan 14:38, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

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Text of the Official biography from the Government Printing Office, HOUSE DOCUMENT NO. 108–222, BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS 1774–2005:

McCLOSKEY, Francis Xavier, a Representative from Indiana; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 12, 1939; graduated, Bishop Kendrick High School, Norristown, Pa., 1957; A.B., Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1968; J.D., Indiana University School of Law, 1971; United States Air Force, 1957-1961; newspaper reporter; lawyer, private practice; mayor of Bloomington, Ind., 1972-1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1985); reelected to the Ninety-ninth Congress pursuant to H. Res. 146, taking his seat on May 1, 1985, and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (May 1, 1985- January 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994; died on November 2, 2003, in Bloomington, Ind.

1. 98th Congress(1983-1984)
2. 99th Congress(1985-1986)
3. 100th Congress(1987-1988)
4. 101st Congress(1989-1990)
5. 102nd Congress(1991-1992)
6. 103rd Congress(1993-1994)

--BirdieGalyan 13:38, 21 March 2007 (EDT)