James Fenelon | |
Birth Name: | James E. Fenelon |
Birth Date: | 25 May 1846 |
Birth Place: | County Carlow, Ireland |
Occupation: | Farmer, politician |
Party: | Republican |
Office: | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly |
Constituency: | Fond du Lac County Second District |
Term Start1: | 1900 |
Term End1: | 1902 |
Term Start2: | 1908 |
Term End2: | 1910 |
James E. Fenelon (May 25, 1846 – September 24, 1915) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.[1]
Fenelon was born in County Carlow, Ireland around 1845; sources differ on the date.[2] A Roman Catholic, he attended what is now Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Later, Fenelon owned a farm in Ripon, Wisconsin. In the 1880s he owned a meat market in Ripon, which was destroyed in a fire in 1885.[3] He died on September 24, 1915.[4]
A Republican,[5] Fenelon was elected to the Assembly in 1900 and 1908.[2] Previously, he had refused a Democratic nomination for the Wisconsin State Senate in 1884.