Richard E. Connell

Richard E. Connell

Richard Edward Connell, Sr. (November 6, 1857 – October 30, 1912) was a United States Representative from New York.

Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., attended St. Peter’s Parochial School and the public schools of Poughkeepsie; reporter and editor on the Poughkeepsie News-Press (1887–1910); police commissioner of Poughkeepsie in 1892; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1896; unsuccessful candidate for member of the State assembly in 1898 and 1900; inheritance tax appraiser 1907 - 1909; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900 and 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death; had been nominated in 1912 as the Democratic candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress; died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery.

He was also the father of author and journalist Richard Connell (1893–1949) best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game."

External links

• Richard E. Connell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress