Dennis McCarthy (March 19, 1814 – February 14, 1886) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of
Thomas McCarthy. He attended Valley Academy in Salina and engaged in the manufacturing of salt. In the early 1840s he went into business operating a general store with his brother-in-law
Silas Titus.
He was a
Democratic member of the
New York State Assembly (Onondaga Co.) in
1845, and was
Mayor
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of
Syracuse, New York, in 1853.
He was elected as a
Republican to the
40th and
41st United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871. Afterwards he resumed his former business pursuits. In 1878 mayor
James J. Belden formed a committee of citizens, St. Joseph's Hospital Aid Society, to look after the interests of St. Joseph's Hospital. McCarthy followed Theodore Dissel as president.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate from 1876 to 1885, sitting in the
99th,
100th,
101st,
102nd,
103rd,
104th,
105th,
106th,
107th and
108th New York State Legislatures; and was
President pro tempore in 1881, 1884 and 1885. He became Acting
Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1885 after the resignation of Governor
Grover Cleveland
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and the succession of Lt. Gov.
David B. Hill to the governorship.
He died in
Syracuse, New York, on February 14, 1886, and was buried at Saint Agnes Cemetery in Syracuse.
[Titus Jr., L. J., 2004, ''Titus - A North American Family History'', Baltimore, MD, p. 599]
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1814 births
1886 deaths
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Lieutenant governors of New York (state)
Politicians from Syracuse, New York
Majority leaders of the New York State Senate
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
Businesspeople from Syracuse, New York
19th-century American businesspeople
19th-century mayors of places in New York (state)
19th-century members of the New York State Legislature
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives