Richard Francis Mckiniry (March 23, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a

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from 1919 to 1921.

Biography

Born in

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, Mckiniry attended the public schools. He graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York City, and from the New York Law School. He was

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in 1899 and commenced the practice of his profession in New York City. He served as assistant

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1914–1917. Secretary of the State supreme court, first district from 1917 to 1919.

Congress

Mckiniry was elected as a

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to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Later career and death

He was appointed a magistrate of New York City on January 1, 1923, and served until August 15, 1943, when he retired due to ill health. He died in

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, May 30, 1950. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery,

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