John F. Finerty

John Frederick Finerty ( born September 10, 1846 in Galway, Ireland, † June 10, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Finerty attended the public schools of his home. In 1864 he came to the United States, where he participated as a member of the state militia of New York at the final stages of the civil war. Later he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Times. He reported in the 1870s of the Indian Wars in the West. From 1879 to 1881 he was the rapporteur of the Congress sessions in Washington DC In 1882 he founded in Chicago, the weekly newspaper, The Citizen.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Finerty was elected as an independent candidate in the second electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of George R. Davis on March 4, 1883. Until March 3, 1885, he was able to complete a term in Congress. Between 1906 and 1908 Finerty belonged to the committee to improve the infrastructure of Chicago. In this city he died on 10 June 1908.