John Matthew O'Connell (August 10, 1872 – December 6, 1941) was a

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from

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. Born in Westerly, Washington County,

, O'Connell attended the public schools and taught in the local schools from 1892 to 1902. He graduated from the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Dental College (now a branch of

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) in 1905 and commenced practice in

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, the same year. During

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, he served for sixteen months with Headquarters Sanitary Train, Twelfth Division, and later as a major in the United States Dental Reserve. He was a member of the State house of representatives 1929-1932. O'Connell was elected as a

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to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938. He died in

, December 6, 1941 and was interred in St. Sebastian Cemetery.

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