Patrick Joseph Sullivan

Patrick Joseph Sullivan ( born March 17, 1865 in County Cork, Ireland, † April 8, 1935 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American Republican politician.

Sullivan was born in 1865 on a farm in the west of Bantry in County Cork in Ireland. 1888 he immigrated moved on to the United States, where he arrived in New York City and in the Wyoming Territory. There, Sullivan worked in Rawlins, Carbon County with the rearing of sheep, before he moved to Casper, Natrona County, 1892. From 1894 to 1896, again from 1898 to 1900 Sullivan was a member of the House of Representatives from Wyoming, he was between 1897 to 1898 mayor of Casper. On 5 December 1929 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy that has become by the death of Francis E. Warren seat until the election of a new senator. Sullivan was thus one of 5 December 1929 to November 20, 1930 for the U.S. Senate as a Senator. Sullivan died in 1935 in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried at the Highland Cemetery in Casper.