John Cunneen (May 18, 1848 near Ennis, County Clare, Ireland - February 21, 1907 Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA) are American lawyers and politicians.
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Life
He came to the United States when he was 14 years old to live with his relatives in Albion, New York. He graduated from Albion Academy in 1870, and began studying law at John H. White's office in Albion. He was accepted at the bar in 1874, and started training at Albion. He was a member of the Albion Village Education Council, and for seven years was the Registrar to the Supervisory Board at Orleans County. On January 26, 1876, he married Elizabeth A. Bass.
In 1890, he moved to Buffalo and established a partnership with William F. Sheehan and Charles F. Tabor at the firm Sheehan, Tabor, Cunneen & amp; Coatsworth. In 1894, he became a senior member of Cunneen & amp; Coatsworth. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1892. In the New York State election, 1902, he was elected as New York Attorney on Democratic and Prohibition tickets. He ran for re-election in New York state elections, 1904, but lost.
He died of pneumonia, and was buried at St. John's Cemetery. Joseph in Albion, like his brother Cornelius Cunneen (1868-1890) who had drowned in the Erie Canal. His wife, Elizabeth, who died in 1917, was a Protestant and so could not be buried with him.
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Source
- [1] Obit on NYT on February 22, 1907
- Bio is transcribed from Our District and Its People: Descriptive Work in Erie County, New York edited by Truman C. White (The Boston History Company, 1898)
- Her brother's death notice was transcribed from The Madinah Tribune on October 9, 1890
- Funeral at St. Cemetery Joseph, in RootsWeb
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