Patrick J. Kerrigan

Patrick J. Kerrigan (1894)

Patrick J. Kerrigan (1864 – December 23, 1895) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was born in 1864, in New York City. He attended the public schools. Then he became a house painter, and later worked in the city's street cleaning department.

Kerrigan entered politics as a Democrat. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 19th D.) in 1894.^[1] His election was contested by the Republican candidate Edward R. Duffy on the grounds that Kerrigan, at the time of his election, had held a civil office in the City of New York which would render him ineligible to the State legislature. The Assembly Committee on Elections rejected the contest, finding that a section foreman in the street cleaning department is a city employee but not a city officer.^[2]

In November 1894, he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Welton C. Percy. In November 1895, after re-epportionment, he ran in the 17th District of New York County for the Assembly, and was again elected, but died before his second term began.^[3]

Kerrigan died suddenly on December 23, 1895, in Savannah, Georgia, of dropsy.^[4]

References

1. New York State Legislative Souvenir for 1894 with Portraits of the Members of Both Houses by Henry P. Phelps (pg. 48)
2. A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 680–685)
3. TAMMANY MAN ELECTED in the New York Times on March 4, 1896
4. DEATH OF ASSEMBLYMAN KERRIGAN in the New York Times on December 24, 1895