James Nicholas Kehoe

James Nicholas Kehoe ( born July 15, 1862 in Maysville, Kentucky, † June 16, 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1905 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Kehoe attended both public and private schools. Afterwards he worked until 1884 in the printing trade. After a subsequent study of law in Louisville and his 1888 was admitted to the bar he began in Maysville to work in this profession. He was among other things, a legal representative of his hometown. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. At county and district level, he was a board member and temporary chairman of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Kehoe was the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Johnson Pugh on March 4, 1901. After a re-election in 1902 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 two legislative sessions. In 1904, he defeated Republican Joseph B. Bennett. 1912 Kehoe delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate. During this time, Kehoe also worked in the banking industry. He was also Vice President of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and of the Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperation Association. He was also president of the Bankers Association of Kentucky. James Kehoe died on June 16, 1945 in Cincinnati. He was buried in his hometown Maysville.