John Edward Kelley

John Edward Kelley

John Edward Kelley (born March 27, 1853 in Portage City , Wisconsin , † August 5, 1941 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the first constituency of the state of South Dakota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Kelley attended public schools in his home country. In 1878 he moved to Moody County in the Dakota Territory . There he worked in agriculture and in the newspaper business. Politically, he was initially a member of the Populist Party ; later he joined the Democrats . Between 1890 and 1891 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Dakota .

In 1892 and 1894, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1896 , he then made it as a candidate for the populists as a member of Congress . There he replaced John Pickler on March 4, 1897 . Kelley could only serve a two-year term until March 3, 1899 in Congress because he was defeated by Republican Charles H. Burke in the 1898 elections.

After his time in Washington ended , Kelley returned to farming. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1915 and 1918 Kelley worked as a registrar for the state administration in Pierre . After moving to Saint Paul , he became the editor of the Cooperative Herald newspaper. John Kelley died in Minneapolis in August 1941.

Web links

• John Edward Kelley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Edward Kelley in the database of Find a Grave (English)