Representative Ned Romeyn Healy

Ned Romeyn Healy (August 9, 1905 – September 10, 1977) was an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1945 and as a Representative from California in the United States Congress from 1945 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he participated in the legislative process during a single term in the House of Representatives, representing the interests of his constituents during a significant period in American history at the close of World War II and the beginning of the postwar era.

Healy’s early life and education are not extensively documented in public sources, but his emergence in Los Angeles municipal politics by the early 1940s indicates that he had become an established figure in the civic and political life of Southern California. By the time he sought elective office, he was positioned within the Democratic Party at a moment when Los Angeles was undergoing rapid growth and transformation, with expanding infrastructure, wartime industry, and shifting demographics shaping the city’s political landscape.

Healy’s formal political career began at the municipal level when he was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, where he served from 1943 to 1945. His tenure on the council coincided with the final years of World War II, a period in which Los Angeles was a major center of defense production and wartime migration. As a council member, he participated in local governance at a time when the city faced challenges related to housing, transportation, and public services for a rapidly growing population, as well as the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy.

Building on his municipal experience, Healy was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served one term in Congress from 1945 to 1947. His service in the House took place during the Seventy-ninth Congress, which convened in the immediate aftermath of World War II and addressed issues such as reconversion of industry, veterans’ benefits, and the early contours of postwar foreign policy. As a member of the House of Representatives, Ned Romeyn Healy contributed to the legislative process and participated in the democratic governance of the nation, representing California constituents during a time of significant domestic and international change.

After leaving Congress in 1947, Healy did not return to the House for subsequent terms, and his later professional and public activities are less prominently recorded in standard reference works. Nonetheless, his combined service on the Los Angeles City Council and in the U.S. Congress reflects a career that bridged local and national concerns at a pivotal moment in twentieth-century American history. Ned Romeyn Healy died on September 10, 1977, closing a life marked by participation in public office during years of war, transition, and postwar adjustment in both California and the United States.