John Michael Clancy Explained

John M. Clancy
Birth Date:7 May 1837
Birth Place:County Laois, Ireland
Death Place:Butte, Montana
Occupation:real estate
Office:Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New York
Constituency: (1889–93)
(1893–95)
Term Start:March 4, 1889
Term End:March 3, 1895
Predecessor:Peter P. Mahoney
Successor:Denis M. Hurley
Office1:Member of the
New York State Assembly
Constituency1:1st Kings (1878–79)
4th Kings (1880–81)
Term Start1:1878
Term End1:1881

John Michael Clancy (May 7, 1837 – July 25, 1903) was an American businessman and politician who served three terms as a United States representative from New York from 1889 to 1895.

Biography

Born in County Laois, Ireland, he immigrated with his parents to the United States and settled in New York City. He attended the public schools of Brooklyn, engaged in the real-estate business, served as an alderman of the city of Brooklyn from 1868 to 1875, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1878, 1879 (both Kings Co., 1st D.), 1880 and 1881 (both Kings Co., 4th D.).

Tenure in Congress

Clancy was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1894.

Later career and death

He then resumed the real-estate business in New York City. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress and died in Butte, Montana while returning from a visit to Yellowstone Park. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, New York City.