Sheridan served as deputy
attorney general of
Pennsylvania from 1934 to 1937. He was a member of the Board of Revision of Taxes in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1937 and the Pennsylvania counsel for the
Delaware River Bridge Commission in 1938 and 1939. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Sheridan was elected as a Democrat to the
76th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
J. Burrwood Daly and was re-elected to the
Seventy-seventh,
Seventy-eighth, and
Seventy-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1946. After his time in Congress, he served in the
United States Air Force from 1954 to 1962, retiring as a colonel. He was a member of the County Board of Law Examiners from 1954 to 1965, and
consul general for the Principality de
Monaco in
Philadelphia. Sheridan is buried in
Arlington National Cemetery. ==References==