Michael P. O'Connor

Michael Patrick O'Connor (* September 29, 1831 in Beaufort, South Carolina, † April 26, 1881 in Charleston, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael O'Connor attended the public schools of his home and then to 1850, the St. John's College, Fordham, New York. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1854 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Charleston. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

Between 1858 and 1866, O'Connor MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. He also served during the Civil War as a lieutenant in an artillery unit of the Army of the Confederate States. In the years 1872 and 1876 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. 1874 and 1876, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In 1878 he was then in the second constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard H. Cain on March 4, 1879. Until March 3, 1881, he completed a regular legislative session. In the elections of 1880 he had been confirmed. The election result was however challenged by Edmund William McGregor Mackey. The decision on this dispute was only in May 1882 Michael O'Connor did not live to this: . Passed away on April 26, 1881 In the meantime, was elected his successor in a special election Samuel Dibble. . Following the decision in favor of Mackey Dibble had to cede to this mandate in May 1882.