Eugene F. Kinkead

Eugene F. Kinkead

Eugene Francis Kinkead (born March 27, 1876 in Buttevant , Ireland , †  September 6, 1960 in South Orange , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1915 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Eugene Kinkead was born during a visit to his parents in County Cork, Ireland. He attended public schools in Jersey City and then, by 1895, Seton Hall College in South Orange. He later became a successful businessman. He was president of Jersey Railway Advertising Co. and Orange Publishing Co. At the same time, he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1898 he was Chairman of the Jersey City Council.

In the congressional elections of 1908 , Kinkead was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Eugene W. Leake on March 4, 1909 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete almost three full legislative terms in Congress until his resignation on February 4, 1915 . From 1913 he represented the eighth district of his state as the successor to Walter I. McCoy . While in Congress, the 16th and 17th amendments were ratified.

Between 1915 and 1917, Kinkead was Sheriff's chief of police in Hudson County . During World War I he was an intelligence officer with the rank of major in the American armed forces at the National War College in Washington. From 1929 to 1960 he served as chairman of the board of the Colonial Trust Co. in New York City . Eugene Kinkead died in South Orange on September 6, 1960.

Web links

• Eugene F. Kinkead in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Eugene F. Kinkead in the database of Find a Grave (English)