Richard E. Connell

Richard Edward Connell ( born November 6, 1857 in Poughkeepsie, New York, † October 30, 1912 ) was an American politician. In the years 1911 and 1912 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Edward Connell was born about four years before the outbreak of the civil war in Dutchess County. He attended St. Peter's Parochial School and public schools in Poughkeepsie. Between 1887 and 1910 he worked as a reporter and editor for the Poughkeepsie News Press. During this time he held the post of Police Commissioner in 1892 from Poughkeepsie. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1896, he ran unsuccessfully for the 55th Congress. In his candidacies in 1898 and 1900 for a seat in the New York State Assembly, he also suffered defeats. He took in 1900 and 1904 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City and Saint Louis in part. Between 1907 and 1909 he worked as a surveyor for inheritance tax.

In the congressional elections of 1910 for the 62nd Congress Connell was the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hamilton Fish II on March 4, 1911. He died before the end of his term on 30 October 1912 in Poughkeepsie. At the time of his death he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the 63rd Congress. His body was interred in St. Peter 's Cemetery.