John Edward Kelley

John Edward Kelley ( * March 27, 1853 at Portage City, Columbia County, Wisconsin; † August 5, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the first electoral district of the state of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Kelley attended the public schools of his home. In 1878 he moved to the Moody County, Dakota Territory. There he was engaged in farming and in the newspaper business. Politically he was first a member of the Populist Party; later he joined the Democrats. Between 1890 and 1891 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from South Dakota.

In 1892 and 1894 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1896, he then managed as a candidate of the populists the catchment as a deputy in the Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1897 from John Pickler. Kelley was able to complete only one two -year term until March 3, 1899 at the Congress because he Republican Charles H. Burke was defeated in the elections of 1898.

After the end of his time in Washington Kelley worked again in agriculture. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate. Between 1915 and 1918, Kelley worked as a registrar for the Federal Land Management in Pierre. After a move to Saint Paul, he was editor of the newspaper "Cooperative Herald ". John Kelley died in August 1941 in Minneapolis.