John J. McCreesh (August 1881 – September 10, 1959)
was an American politician from
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
who served as a
Democratic member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four-year terms, stagger ...
for the
4th district from 1935 to 1958. He was born in
Armagh County, Ireland now a part of
Northern Ireland
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. Upon his retirement in 1958, he was succeeded by his son
Thomas McCreesh.
References
External links
John McCreesh at the Political Graveyard
1881 births
1959 deaths
Democratic Party Pennsylvania state senators
Politicians from County Armagh
Politicians from Philadelphia
20th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
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