Joseph f conroy biography of abraham lincoln

Jim Conroy was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society in in recognition of his first book, Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of , the only book ever devoted to Lincoln’s little-known peace negotiations with Confederate leaders on a riverboat in Virginia near the end of the Civil War.

Our One Common Country was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, awarded to the author of the best book of the year on Lincoln, a Civil War soldier, or the Civil War era. Conroy’s second book, Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime, was a co-winner of the Lincoln Prize and won the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s annual book award. Leading Jefferson historians have applauded Conroy’s third book, Jefferson's White House: Monticello on the Potomac. His new book, The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan that Won the War, published by Simon & Schuster, is a character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of , where Winston Churchill, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, and their military chiefs planned a winning strategy at the turning point of World War II.

Conroy is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and served for six years in the United States Naval Air Reserve. While working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter, a press secretary, and a chief of staff in the ’s and early ’s, he earned a master’s degree in international relations at George Washington University and a law degree, magna cum laude, at the Georgetown University Law Center.  A co-founder of Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, one of Boston’s leading litigation firms, he practiced law for 38 years, until May of He enjoys following national politics as well as the Boston Celtics and the New England Patriots, sometimes but not always a more relaxing source of recreation.

Conroy has lived in Hingham, Massachusetts with his wife of fifty years, Lynn Fitzgerald Conroy, since Their daughter, Erin Conroy, is a lawyer at the Food and Drug Administration and the mother of two young boys in Washington, D.C.

Their son, Scott Conroy, is a political journalist-turned-script-writer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the CBS network television journalist Jo Ling Kent, and their two young daughters. Conroy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hingham Historical Society and has served on the Hingham Historical Commission and the Hingham Community Preservation Committee and chaired the Town of Hingham’s Government Study Committee, its Task Force on Affordability, and its Advisory Committee, which counsels the Hingham Town Meeting, an exercise in direct democracy through which the town has governed itself since , well before Conroy’s time.