Francis J. McCaffrey (September 16, 1917 – November 29, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on September 16, 1917, in

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. He attended Holy Spirit Parochial School and

Fordham Preparatory School Fordham Preparatory School (also known as Fordham Prep) is an American private, Jesuit, boys' college-preparatory school located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. From its founding in 1841 until 1970, t ...

. He graduated from

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, it offers four law degree programs, JD, LLM, MSLS and JSD, along with several dual-deg ...

in 1942. During

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he served as an air gunner in the

U.S. Army Air Force The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...

. He was an Assistant D.A. of Bronx County from 1946 to 1948. He married Irene B. O'Hara (1921–2000), and they had four children. McCaffrey was a member of the

New York State Senate The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan com ...

from 1951 to 1956, sitting in the 168th, 169th and 170th New York State Legislatures. In November 1956, he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Joseph F. Periconi. McCaffrey was Commissioner of Records of the Surrogate Court of Bronx County until 1961, and afterwards engaged in private practice until his retirement in 1985. He died on November 29, 1989, at his home in

Riverdale, Bronx Riverdale is a residential neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Riverdale, which had a population of 47,850 as of the 2000 United States Census, contains the city's northernmost point, at the College ...

, of a

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.''Francis McCaffrey, 72, Ex-Bronx State Senator''
in the ''

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'' on December 1, 1989

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCaffrey, Francis J. 1917 births 1989 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators Cornell Law School alumni 20th-century American legislators Politicians from the Bronx United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II United States Army Air Forces soldiers Fordham Preparatory School alumni