Peter H. McNulty

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 Democratic Party (USA) New York State Senator from Brooklyn’s 6th District (119th New York State Legislature,^[1] 120th New York State Legislature^[2] and 121st New York State Legislature). McNulty apparently a few years after this service in the legislature died, remarkably, of “acute indigestion”.^[3][4]

Major McNulty’s legislative tenure on each end just missed Theodore Roosevelt’s earlier tenure therein and Roosevelt’s later return to New York state politics as its Governor.^[5]

References

1. ↑ Edgar L. Murlin The New York Red Book, ed. James Malcolm, Albany: J.B. Lyon Co. © 1917, p. 404, Harvard University, digitized January 10, 2007
2. ↑ again, Edgar L. Murlin The New York Red Book, ed. James Malcolm, Albany: J.B. Lyon Co. © 1917, p. 404, Harvard University, digitized January 10, 2007
3. ↑ Biographical Directory of the State of New York 1900, New York City (Park Row Building): Biographical Directory Company, Inc. (1900), p 307, Harvard University, digitized February 12, 2009
4. ↑ New York Times September 6, 1902 (obituary noting cause of death as "acute indigestion"}
5. ↑ 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