Dennis Thomas Flynn

Dennis Thomas Flynn ( born February 13, 1861 in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, † June 19, 1939 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897, and again in 1899-1903 he represented the Oklahoma Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1863, Dennis Flynn and his mother moved to Buffalo in New York State. After her mother's death he was raised to 1880 in a Catholic orphanage. He attended public schools in the area and the Canisius College in Buffalo. After a move to Riverside in Iowa, he founded the newspaper " Riverside Reader", which he published as well. After studying law and his 1882 was admitted as a lawyer began in Kiowa Flynn (Kansas) to work in his new profession. There he published the newspaper " Kiowa Herald ". Between 1884 and 1885 he was postmaster for a few months and 1886-1889 the city attorney Kiowa.

In 1889, Dennis Flynn moved to Guthrie in Oklahoma Territory. There he was postmaster from 1889 to 1892. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of congress delegates. In the elections of 1892 he was elected as a delegate but in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced David Archibald Harvey on March 4, 1893. After a re-election in 1894 he could from his position in Congress to exercise initially until March 3, 1897. As a delegate he had there, but not to vote. In the elections of 1896 he was defeated James Yancy Callahan. But already in the next congressional elections Flynn was re-elected as a delegate to Congress. There he was able to complete two more 1903 legislative sessions after a re-election in 1900 until March 3. 1902 abandoned Flynn on a bid again.

After his time in Congress Dennis Flynn worked as a lawyer in Oklahoma City. In 1908, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate and 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.