Joseph H. O'Neil explained

Joseph Henry O'Neil
Office1:Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
Term Start1:March 4, 1889
Term End1:March 3, 1895
Predecessor1:Patrick A. Collins
Successor1:John F. Fitzgerald
Constituency1:4th district (1889–93)
9th district (1893–95)
Office2:Boston City Clerk
Term Start2:1887
Term End2:1888
Predecessor2:Eugene Henry Sampson
Successor2:Edwin Upton Curtis
Office3:Chairman of the Boston Board of Directors for Public Institutions
Term Start3:1885
Term End3:1886
Office4:Member of the Boston Board of Directors for Public Institutions
Term Start4:1880
Term End4:1886
Office5:Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Term5:1884
1878-1882
Office6:Member of the Boston School Committee
Term Start6:1874
Term End6:1877
Birth Date:23 March 1853
Birth Place:Fall River, Massachusetts
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts
Party:Democrat

Joseph Henry O'Neil (March 23, 1853  - February 19, 1935) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, O'Neil moved with his parents to Boston in 1854.He attended the common schools.He graduated from Quincy Grammar School, Boston.Ten years at the carpenter's trade.He served as member of the Boston School Committee 1874-1877.He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1878-1882 and in 1884.He served as member of the Board of Directors for Public institutions from 1880 to 1886 and was chairman of the board the last eighteen months.He served as Boston city clerk in 1887 and 1888.

O'Neil was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894.He served as assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston by appointment of President Cleveland in 1895–1899.Organized the Federal Trust Co., of Boston, in 1899 and served as its president until 1922, when it merged into the Federal National Bank, and then served as chairman of the board of directors until his death.He served as member of the board of sinking fund commissioners in 1899–1909.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916.He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 19, 1935, and was interred in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts.

He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1925 Boston mayoral election.

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