Michael F. Conry

Michael Francis Conry ( born April 2, 1870 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, † March 2, 1917 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1909 and 1917 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Francis Conry was born about five years after the end of the Civil War in the Shenandoah in Schuylkill County. He worked until his crippling coal mining. In the following years he attended public schools. He taught for several years. In 1896 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Scranton. In 1900 he ran unsuccessfully for the 57th Congress. Then he moved to New York City, where he was continued to work as a lawyer. He spent two years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in New York City operates. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1908 for the 61st Congress Conry was elected the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of William Bourke Cockran on March 4, 1909. He was re-elected four times in a row, but died before he could begin his final term on March 2, 1917 in Washington DC His body was then buried at the Calvary Cemetery in New York City.