Michael N. Nolan

Michael Nicholas Nolan ( born May 4, 1833, County Carlow, Ireland, † May 31, 1905 in Albany, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Nicholas Nolan was born during the reign of William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover, County Carlow. At the age of ten he emigrated to the United States. He attended public schools in Albany. Then he began to study law, but did not complete his courses. After the outbreak of the gold rush in California, he tried his luck there. Nolan worked in San Francisco in the tram network and later as a manager. He returned to Albany, where he worked as a brewer. Then he served as director of the National Savings Bank of Albany. From 1869 to 1878 he was First Commissioner of Albany. He was elected mayor of Albany - a position which he held as a successor of A. Bleecker Banks in May 1878 to his resignation on 24 June 1883. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1880 for the 47th Congress Nolan was in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Mosher Bailey on March 4, 1881. Since he gave up for reelection in 1882, he retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress.

They chose him again as Mayor of Albany. He continued his business activities. On 31 May 1905 he died in Albany and was then buried in the St. Agnes Cemetery.