John A. McShane

John Albert McShane ( born August 25, 1850 in New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, † November 10, 1923 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party). Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McShane attended the public schools of his home. In 1871 he moved to the Wyoming Territory and 1874 to Omaha in Nebraska. In both places, he dealt with the livestock. In Omaha, he was also director of the First National Bank of Omaha. Between 1880 and 1882 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Nebraska, from 1882 to 1886 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1886, he was elected the first candidate of his party at all for the first electoral district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1887 Archibald J. Weaver. McShane completed until March 3, 1889, only one term in Congress. After the end of his time in Washington, he returned to Omaha, where he pursued his private stores again. There he died in November 1923.