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John Robert Connelly (February 27, 1870 – September 9, 1940) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from
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. Born near
Mount Sterling, Illinois Mount Sterling is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,006 at the 2020 census. Foodservice distributor Dot Foods is based in Mount Sterling. History Mount Sterling was organized in 1854. I ...
, Connelly moved to Thayer County, Nebraska, with his parents in 1883. He attended the common schools and Salina (Kansas) Normal University. He moved to Thomas County, Kansas, in 1888, and homesteaded there in 1892. He began teaching school when nineteen years of age and became superintendent of schools for Thomas County 1894-1898. He was owner and editor of the ''
Colby Free Press The ''Colby Free Press'' is a local newspaper published in Colby, Kansas. It is the official newspaper for Thomas County, Kansas. It publishes four days a week, Monday and Wednesday through Friday. U.S. Representative John R. Connelly was its ow ...
'' from 1897 to 1919. He served as mayor of Colby and as a member of the city council. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. Connelly was elected as a
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to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1919). On April 5, 1917, he was one of 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He resumed his former business pursuits. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1908, 1920, and 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He engaged in the real-estate business at Colby, Kansas. He died in Concordia, Kansas on September 9, 1940. He was interred in Beulah Cemetery, Colby, Kansas.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Connelly, John Robert 1870 births 1940 deaths People from Mount Sterling, Illinois People from Thayer County, Nebraska People from Colby, Kansas Mayors of places in Kansas Kansas city council members Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas