O’MAHONEY, Joseph Christopher, a Senator from Wyoming; bom in
Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass. on November 5, 1884; attended the
parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City;
moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1908 and engaged as a reporter on the
Boulder Herald; moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1916 and served as city
editor of the Cheyenne State Leader; executive secretary to Senator
John B. Kendrick 1917-1920; graduated from the Georgetown University
Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920
and commenced practice in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Washington, D.C.;
member of conference on uniform State laws 1925-1926; city attorney
of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
1929-1931; Democratic national committeeman 1929-1934; appointed
First Assistant Postmaster General in 1933, and served until December
31, 1933, when he resigned to become a Senator; appointed on December
18, 1933, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John B. Kendrick, and elected on
November 6, 1934, to fill this vacancy and also for the term
commencing January 3, 1935; reelected in 1940 and again in 1946, and
served from January 1, 1934, to January 3, 1953; chairman, Committee
on Indian Affairs (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses),
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-first and Eighty-second
Congresses), cochairman, Joint Committee on the Economic Report
(Eighty-first and Eighty-second Con-resses); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1952; elected on November 2, 1954, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Lester C. Hunt, and also elected for
the full term commencing January 3, 1955, and served from November
29, 1954, to January 3, 1961; was not a candidate for renomination in
1960; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Cheyenne,
Wyo.; died in the naval hospital, Bethesda, Md., December 1, 1962;
interment in Mount-Olivet Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
