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Irish ancestry Politicians in Texas

  John Thomas Browne (1845-1941) — also known as John T. Browne; "The Fighting Irishman"; "Honest John" — of Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland, March 23, 1845. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; grocer; mayor of Houston, Tex., 1892-96; member of Texas state house of representatives, 1897-99, 1907. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Knights of Columbus; Ancient Order of Hibernians. Died, of pneumonia, in Houston, Harris County, Tex., August 19, 1941 (age 96 years, 149 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Michael Browne and Winifred (Hennessy) Browne; married, September 13, 1871, to Mary Jane 'Mollie' Bergin.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Edward Austin Burke (1839-1928) — also known as Edward A. Burke; Edward A. Burk — of Galveston, Galveston County, Tex.; New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., September 13, 1839. Democrat. Telegraph operator; railroad superintendent; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; importer and exporter; railway freight agent; newspaper editor; Louisiana state treasurer, 1878-88; engaged in a pistol duel with Henry J. Hearsey on January 25, 1880; neither man was injured; in 1882, he was wounded in a duel with C. Harrison Parker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1880 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1884; in 1889, his successor as state treasurer, William Henry Pipes, discovered discrepancies in state funds, and accused Burke of embezzlement; he was subsequently indicted by a grand jury; Burke, then in London, chose not to return to Louisiana, and instead fled to Honduras, and remained in Central America for the rest of his life. Irish ancestry. Died, in the Hotel Ritz, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, September 24, 1928 (age 89 years, 11 days). Interment somewhere in Yuscarán, Honduras.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Rafael Edward Cruz (b. 1970) — also known as Ted Cruz — of Austin, Travis County, Tex. Born, to an American mother, in Foothills General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, December 22, 1970. Republican. Lawyer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 2008; U.S. Senator from Texas, 2013-; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 2016. Southern Baptist. Cuban, Irish, and Italian ancestry. Still living as of 2018.
  Relatives: Son of Rafael Bienvenido Cruz and Eleanor Elizabeth (Darragh) Cruz; married 2001 to Heidi Nelson.
  See also congressional biography — Wikipedia article
George D. FitzSimmons George Dudley FitzSimmons (1860-1942) — also known as George D. FitzSimmons — of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Born in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Tex., January 16, 1860. Grocer; U.S. Consular Agent in Monterrey, 1893-97; U.S. Vice Consul in Monterrey, 1917-26. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Died in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Tex., January 28, 1942 (age 82 years, 12 days). Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph FitzSimmons and Eleanor (Leonard) FitzSimmons; married, October 19, 1893, to Genevieve Roberts.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: U.S. passport application (1918)
  Thomas Stephen Hogan (1869-1957) — also known as Thomas S. Hogan — of Montana; Midland, Midland County, Tex. Born in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wis., December 23, 1869. Oil business; candidate for Montana state house of representatives, 1894; secretary of state of Montana, 1897-1901; Silver Republican candidate for U.S. Representative from Montana at-large, 1898; Independent Democratic candidate for Governor of Montana, 1900; member of Montana state senate, 1910-14; in Midland, Texas, he built the Yucca movie theater (1927) and the 12-story Hogan Building (1929), the city's first "skyscaper". Irish ancestry. Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., September 25, 1957 (age 87 years, 276 days). Interment at Evergreen Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Bridget (O'Hearn) Hogan and John Hogan; married to Kathryn Agnes Donovan.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) — also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K."; "Lancer" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., May 29, 1917. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956; received a 1957 Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Knights of Columbus; American Legion; Elks. Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Shot by a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Dallas County, Tex., November 22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177 days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton Ivan Steers Jr.); brother of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter Lawford), Robert Francis Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith and Edward Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia Joan Bennett); married, September 12, 1953, to Jaqueline Lee Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III); father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who married Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, Mark Kennedy Shriver and Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John Francis Fitzgerald.
  Political family: Kennedy family.
  Cross-reference: John B. Connally — Henry B. Gonzalez — Henry M. Wade — Walter Rogers — Gerry E. Studds — James B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark Dalton — Waggoner Carr — Theodore C. Sorensen — Pierre Salinger — John Bartlow Martin — Abraham Davenport
  The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Louisville, Kentucky, is named for him.
  Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. half dollar coin.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage (1956)
  Books about John F. Kennedy: Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK : Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael O'Brien, John F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America — Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy — Chris Matthews, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero — Shelley Sommer, John F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young readers)
  Critical books about John F. Kennedy: Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK: the Man and the Myth
  Image source: Warren Commission report (via Wikipedia)
  John Looney (1865-1942) — also known as Patrick John Looney — of Rock Island, Rock Island County, Ill. Born in Ottawa, La Salle County, Ill., October 5, 1865. Lawyer; newspaper publisher; indicted with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction project; convicted, but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for Illinois state house of representatives, 1900; created and led a crime syndicate in northwest Illinois, with interests in gambling, prostitution, extortion, and eventually bootlegging and automobile theft; indicted in 1907 on 37 counts of bribery, extortion, and libel, but acquitted; shot and wounded by hidden snipers on two occasions in 1908; on February 22, 1909, he was shot and wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on March 22, 1912, after publishing personal attacks on Rock Island Mayor Henry M. Schriver, he was arrested, brought to the police station, and severely beaten by the mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men and injured nine others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets in 1921; in 1922, he was indicted for the murder of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had provided evidence against Looney to federal agents; arrested in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later convicted of conspiracy and murder; sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiracy and 14 years for murder; served 8 1/2 years. Irish ancestry. Died, of tuberculosis, in a sanitarium at El Paso, El Paso County, Tex., 1942 (age about 76 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Patrick Looney and Margaret Looney; married 1892 to Nora O'Connor; nephew of Maurice T. Maloney.
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Mahoney (1869-1952) — of Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kan.; Galveston, Galveston County, Tex.; Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.; Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.; St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., January 13, 1869. Pressman; labor leader; Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904; candidate for Presidential Elector for Minnesota; founder and editor, Minnesota Union Advocate newspaper, 1920-32; mayor of St. Paul, Minn., 1932-34; Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S. Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1943. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Knights of Pythias. Died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., August 17, 1952 (age 83 years, 217 days). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
  See also Wikipedia article
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