Denis M. Hurley

Denis Michael Hurley ( born March 14, 1843 in Limerick, Ireland, † February 26, 1899 in Hot Springs, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1898 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Denis Michael Hurley was born in the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland in Limerick. At that time the Thames Tunnel was opened in London. His family emigrated in 1850 to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. Four years later, she moved to New York City where Michael Denis Hurley attended public schools. A year after the Civil War, he returned to Brooklyn. He was trained as a carpenter and was a job as a building contractor after. In the years 1879 and 1899, he participated as a delegate to the Republican State Convention. He ran unsuccessfully in 1880 as a Republican for a seat in the New York State Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1894, Hurley was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John M. Clancy on March 4, 1895. He was reelected in 1896, but suffered in his third term in 1898, a defeat. He died a few days before the end of his second term of office on February 26, 1899 in Hot Springs and was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.