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Healy was elected vice president of the
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of New York County, winning office in 1917 and serving until the position was abolished the subsequent year.
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International Transport Workers, held in
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during the early 1920s, a position which simultaneously brought him into close relations with
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Healy was prominent in New York City municipal politics and was a close associate of Mayor
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leader and political activist. Healy is best remembered as the longtime head of the
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108:Biography
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