James G. Monahan

James Gideon Monahan (* January 12, 1855 in Darlington, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, † December 5, 1923 in Dubuque, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Monahan attended the public schools of his home, including the Darlington High School, where he graduated in 1875. He then worked himself for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Mineral Point to work in his new profession. In 1880 he returned to Darlington. Between 1880 and 1884 he was district attorney in Lafayette County. Monahan was also active in the newspaper business. From 1883 to 1919 he edited the " Darlington Republican Journal". Politically, Monahan member of the Republican Party. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the years 1900 to 1908 Monahan headed the tax authority in the second Financial District of Wisconsin.

In the congressional elections of 1918, he was the third election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John M. Nelson on March 4, 1919. Since he was not nominated in 1920 by his party for a second term, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1921. At this time there the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, by the women's suffrage was introduced nationwide. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Monahan is no longer politically have appeared. He died on December 5, 1923 in Dubuque and was buried in Darlington.

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