Peter P. Mahoney
U.S. Congressperson
1848 – 1889
Who was Peter P. Mahoney?
Peter Paul Mahoney, of Brooklyn, New York, was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1889. He was a Democrat.
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. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; was not a candidate in 1888 for reelection to the Fifty-first Congress; 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, Queens County, New York.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1848
- Also known as
- Peter Mahoney
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Mar 27, 1889
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on July 23, 2013
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