John F. Finerty
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John Frederick Finerty was a U.S. Representative
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 from Illinois
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Biography

Born in Galway
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, Ireland
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, Finerty completed preparatory studies. He immigrated to the United States in 1864. He enlisted in the Union Army
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 during the Civil War
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 and served in the Ninety-ninth Regiment, New York State Militia. He was a correspondent for the Chicago Times in the Sioux War
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 of 1876, in the Northern Indian (Sioux) War of 1879, in the Ute
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 campaign of 1879, and afterward in the Apache campaign
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 of 1881. He was a correspondent in Washington, D.C.
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 during the sessions of the Forty-sixth
46th United States Congress
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 Congress (1879–1881). He established the Citizen, a weekly newspaper, in Chicago
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 in 1882.

Finerty was elected as an Independent Democrat
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 to the Forty-eighth
48th United States Congress
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Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885). He served as member of the board of local improvements 1906-1908. He died in Chicago, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery.

Author of two-volume "Ireland: The People's History of Ireland" (1904) New York and London: The Co-operative Publication Society.
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