US Congressman, Lawyer, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of Massachusetts. He was born one of five children to Dennis Healey (1850-1901), and his wife Mary Ireland Healey (1855-), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1889. He was educated locally in the common public schools and later attended and graduated from Somerville Latin School in Somerville, Massachusetts, before attending the prestigious Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1909 and 1910. He also attended and graduated from the law department at the prestigious Boston University School of Laws in Boston, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Laws in 1913. He was then admitted to the bar and began his commencement of law in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1914 to 1917. At the outbreak of World War I, he put his law practice on hold to serve his country when he enlisted in the United States Army rising through the ranks to Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Following the war, he was honorably discharged from active duty on March 6, 1919, and returned to his law practice in Boston, Massachusetts, shortly thereafter. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Frederick William Dallinger (1871-1955), on March 4, 1933. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Massachusett's 8th District (Seventy-Third Congress and the four succeeding Congress including the Seventy-Fourth Congress, the Seventy-Fifth Congress, the Seventy-Sixth Congress, and the Seventy-Seventh Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1933, to August 3, 1942. He was originally elected in 1932, and re-elected in 1934, 1936, 1938, and again in 1940. While serving in the United States Congress, his name was attached to one significant piece of New Deal Legislation, the Walsh-Healey Act of 1936, which regulated hours and working conditions for employees working on government contracts. He was also instrumental as one of the initial members of the newly created House Un-American Activities Committee in 1938. He continued to serve in the United States Congress until he resigned from his seat in the United States Congress to accept an appointment as a Judge of the United States District Court for the State of Massachusetts on August 3, 1942. He was personally nominated by then-President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), on December 1, 1941, to the seat on that court which had been vacated by Judge Elisha Hume Brewster (1871-1946). He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 16, 1941, and received his commission on December 19, 1941, but remained serving in in the United States Congress until his resignation on August 3, 1942. Following his resignation from the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Angier Louis Goodwin (1881-1975), on January 3, 1943. He then served as the Judge of the United States District Court for the State of Massachusetts from December 19, 1941, until his death on September 16, 1948, at the age of 58. Following his death while still in office, he was succeeded as Judge of the United States District Court for the State of Massachusetts by the incoming United States Judge William T. McCarthy (1885-1964), on February 2, 1949, who had been appointed to the seat by then President of the United States Harry S. Truman (1884-1972). A Member of the Catholic faith, he was also a longtime member of such clubs and organizations as the American Legion, the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Eagles, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage following a long illness in Somerville, Massachusetts, on September 16, 1948, at the age of 58. He had been in poor health since suffering a heart seizure two years earlier. Following his death, his funeral service and a high requiem mass were held at St. Ann's Church in Somerville, Massachusetts, and he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts. He was married to Tresla Augustine Fisher Healey (1896-1969), in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 26, 1923, with whom he had four children, Robert born in 1925, Arthur Jr. born in 1925, Elaine born in 1930, and another daughter named Ruth. His wife Tresla who passed away in Arlington, Massachusetts, on October 15, 1969, at the age of 72, and his son Arthur Jr. who passed away on February 7, 1967, at the age of 41, are also buried with him in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts. The Arthur D. Healey School in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a public elementary school named after him.