Peter H. McNulty (1818-1902), a merchant and real estate operator and, concurrently, an officer from 1880 (3rd Battalion) and a major from 1889 (Quartermaster, 2nd Brigade) in the New York National Guard, was a multi term turn of the 19th century
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New York State Senator from Brooklyn's 6th District (
119th New York State Legislature
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121st New York State Legislature
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). McNulty apparently a few years after this service in the legislature died, remarkably, of "acute indigestion".
Major McNulty's legislative tenure on each end just missed
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[W. Johnson, R. Brown, W. Spooner and W. Holly ''History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental'' Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Press, Inc. © 1922 New York Public Library, digitized December 21, 2005, Vol. 4 1896-1922, pp 36, 45-70]
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New York (state) Democrats
1818 births
1902 deaths