Peter Paul Mahoney (June 25, 1848 – March 27, 1889), of
Brooklyn,
New York
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, was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a
U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1889. He was a
Democrat.
Biography
Mahoney was born in New York City and educated in the public schools there. He engaged in the dry-goods business for several years; moved to Brooklyn, New York, and engaged in the sale of liquor.
Congress
He was elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congress
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es (March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889); was not a candidate in 1888 for reelection to the
Fifty-first Congress
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.
Death
He became ill while attending the inauguration ceremonies of President
Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889, and died in
Washington, D.C., March 27, 1889 at the age of 40. He is interred in
Calvary Cemetery,
Long Island City
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, Queens County, New York.
References
External links
Peter Paul Mahoney entryat
The Political Graveyard
1848 births
1889 deaths
Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
Politicians from Brooklyn
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century American legislators
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