James N. Kehoe Explained

James Nicholas Kehoe
State:Kentucky
Term Start:March 4, 1901
Term End:March 3, 1905
Predecessor:Samuel J. Pugh
Successor:Joseph B. Bennett
Birth Date:15 July 1862
Birth Place:Maysville, Kentucky, U.S.
Death Place:Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Party:Democratic
Resting Place:Maysville Cemetery

James Nicholas Kehoe (July 15, 1862 in Maysville, Kentucky  - June 16, 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Kehoe was born in Maysville, Kentucky and attended public and private schools. He engaged in the printing business until 1884, and studied law in Louisville, Kentucky before being admitted to the bar on November 1, 1888, and engaged in practice in Maysville. He served as precinct, county, and district chairman of the Democratic executive committee, and the city attorney of Maysville. He also served as master in chancery of the Mason County Circuit Court.

Kehoe was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905).[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He then served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912, and as vice president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and of the Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperation Association. He also engaged in banking and served as president of the Kentucky Bankers' Association.

Kehoe died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1945 and was interred in Maysville Cemetery, Maysville, Kentucky.

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  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 . GovInfo.gov . U.S. Government Printing Office . 2 July 2023 . 39 . 9 November 1903.