Maurice Connolly

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Maurice Connolly was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa on March 13, 1877. Connolly attended the common schools. He was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1897, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. In 1898, he graduated from New York University School of Law, New York City. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and did postgraduate work at Balliol College, Oxford, England, and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Later, Connolly engaged in the insurance business and banking. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915). Connolly was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916 and served as major in the Aviation Corps during World War I. Connolly died in an airplane accident near Indian Head, Md. on May 28, 1921.

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• Maurice Connolly at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress