Paul Joseph Kilday (March 29, 1900 – October 12, 1968) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas, representing the 20th district from January 3, 1939, to September 24, 1961, before serving as a Judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals.

At one point, he went into practice with Harry Howard, who later became a judge and president of the San Antonio Bar Association.

He was elected by the Twentieth District of Texas as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation September 24, 1961, having been appointed a judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals by President John F. Kennedy.

[4] He was one of the majority of the Texan delegation to decline to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.

[citation needed] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress