Biography

07/12/1835 - 10/23/1902


MONAGHAN, James J., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July 12, 1835 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company C, 22nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); carpenter; general contractor; accountant; elected, school director, Philadelphia (1860-1861); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1877; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1878); magistrate clerk, Philadelphia; died, October 23, 1902 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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