John R. Connelly

John Robert Connelly ( born February 27, 1870 Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois, † September 9, 1940 in Concordia, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1919 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1883, John Connelly came with his parents in the Thayer County, Nebraska, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the Salina Normal University in Salina (Kansas). Since 1888, Connelly was living in Thomas County, Kansas, where he worked as a teacher. Between 1894 and 1898 he was the Thomas County Board of Education; 1897 to 1919 he was the owner and editor of the newspaper " Colby Free Press ".

Connelly was a member of the Democratic Party, whose Democratic National Convention he attended in 1908, 1920 and 1928 as a delegate. He was mayor and city council in Colby. In 1908, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the sixth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1913 is the successor of the Republican Isaac D. Young. After two elections Connelly could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1919. In this time, the participation of the United States fell in the First World War. On January 16, 1919, shortly before the end of its term, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress was passed, by which the alcohol prohibition was introduced.

In the 1918 elections Connelly was defeated by Republican Hays B. White. After retiring from Congress, he resumed his previous activities on again. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for a return to the U.S. House of Representatives. At that time he was also involved in real estate business in Colby. John Connelly died in September 1940 in Concordia and was buried in Colby.