Edward J. Dunphy

Edward John Dunphy ( born May 12, 1856 in New York City; † July 29, 1926 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1889 and 1895 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward John Dunphy was born about five years before the outbreak of the Civil War in New York City and grew up there. He attended public schools and the St. Francis Xavier College in New York City. In 1876, he graduated from Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg (Maryland). Dunphy studied law, 1878 was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City. He also worked in the jurisprudential division of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co.. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1888 for the 51st Congress he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lloyd Bryce on March 4, 1889. He was re-elected once. In 1892 he ran in the eighth electoral district of New York for the 53rd Congress. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1893 in the footsteps of Timothy J. Campbell. Since he gave up for reelection in 1894, he retired after the March 3, 1895 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (53rd Congress ).

After his time he took Congress in New York City his work as a lawyer on. He died there on July 29, 1926, was then buried in the Calvary Cemetery.