 Maloney served as mayor of Meriden from 1929 to 1933.He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives of the seventy-third Congress and served from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1935, in the session that was shorter than the usual two years because the time when the sessions would open was changed.He did not seek reelection, because he had been nominated for the Senate.