John Joseph O'Neill (U.S. politician)

John Joseph O'Neill, 1892 portrait

John Joseph O'Neill (June 25, 1846 – February 19, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, O'Neill attended the common schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in St. Louis. He engaged in the manufacture of gold pens. He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1872 to 1878. He served as member of the municipal assembly from 1879 to 1881.

O'Neill was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Labor (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress.

O'Neill was elected to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He successfully contested the election of Charles F. Joy to the Fifty-third Congress (April 3, 1894 – March 3, 1895). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed the practice of law. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, February 19, 1898. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery.

References

• United States Congress. "John Joseph O'Neill (id: O000097)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 
• John Joseph O'Neill at Find a Grave

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Education and Labor (1867–1883)	Baker Arnell Perce Monroe Walker Goode Updegraff Sherwin
Education (1883–1947)	Aiken Candler O'Donnell Hayes Brunner Enloe Grow Southwick Burke Lever Hughes Sears Fess Dallinger Reed Douglass Palmisano Larrabee Barden
Labor (1883–1947)	Hopkins O'Neill Wade Tarsney McGann Phillips Gardner Wilson Lewis Maher Smith Nolan Zihlman Kopp Welch Connery Norton
Education and Labor* (1947–)	Hartley Lesinski Barden McConnell Barden Powell Perkins Hawkins Ford Goodling Boehner McKeon Miller Kline Foxx (Designate)
Notes	*Alternately named Economic and Educational Opportunities and Education and the Workforce.