Delaney was born in
Brooklyn, he attended St. Ann's Parochial School and St. James' Academy in Brooklyn and
Manhattan College. He engaged in the diamond business in 1897, was graduated from the
Brooklyn Law School of
St. Lawrence University in 1914, was
admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in New York City.
First term in Congress Delaney was elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative
John J. Fitzgerald, and held office from March 5, 1918, to March 3, 1919.
New York public official He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1918 and resumed his former business pursuits. He was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1922 and 1924 and was deputy
Commissioner of Public Markets of
New York City from 1924 to 1931.
Return to Congress He was again elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives, this time to the Seventy-second Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect
Matthew V. O'Malley.
Death Delaney was reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses, holding office from November 3, 1931, to November 18, 1948. He was reelected in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress but died on November 18, 1948, in Brooklyn. Interment was in
Holy Cross Cemetery. ==See also==