John Cunneen

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John Cunneen (born May 18, 1848 in Ennis , Ireland ; † February 21, 1907 in Buffalo , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

John Cunneen immigrated to the United States at the age of 14 , where he lived with relatives in Albion, New York. The following years were overshadowed by civil war. In 1870 he graduated from Albion Academy. He then began Jura to study at the law firm of John H. White in Albion. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and then began practicing in Albion. He served on the Albion Village Education Committee and served as a clerk on Orleans County County Council for seven years . On January 26, 1876, he married Elizabeth A. Bass.

Cunneen moved to Buffalo, New York in 1890, where he founded the law firm Sheehan, Tabor, Cunneen & Coatworth with William F. Sheehan , Charles F. Tabor and Edward E. Coatsworth . In 1894 he became a senior partner at Cunneen & Coatsworth. He took as a delegate at the 1892 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ( Illinois part). In the 1902 election he was elected Attorney General of New York. He stood for the Democratic Party and the Prohibition Party . In his re-election in 1904, he suffered a defeat against the Republican Julius Marshuetz Mayer .

He died of complications from pneumonia and was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Albion, like his brother Cornelius Cunneen (1868–1890), who drowned in the Erie Canal . His wife Elizabeth, who died in 1917, was a Protestant and therefore could not be buried next to him.

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SURNAME Cunneen, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH near Ennis , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1907
Place of death Buffalo , New York