Dennis T. Flynn
Dennis T. Flynn was born
at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He was educated at
Buffalo, New York, where he also studied law. After his
admission to the bar, he settled at Riverside, Iowa.
In 1882 he again migrated,
locating at Kiowa, Kansas, where in addition to practicing law he
established and successfully conducted the Kiowa Herald and also
served as postmaster.
When Oklahoma was
opened to settlement Mr. Flynn settled at Guthrie, where he was the
first postmaster. In 1890 he received a strong vote for the
nomination for Territorial delegate to Congress in the Republican
convention. In 1892 he was nominated and elected as delegate to
the Fifty-third Congress. In 1894 he was re-nominated and
re-elected. In 1896 he was re-nominated, but by reason of the
fusion of the Democratic and Populist parties, the Republicans were in
a hopeless minority, though Mr. Flynn ran far ahead of his
ticket. In 1898 and again in 1900 he was re-nominated and
re-elected. During the last mentioned year he secured the
passage of the free homestead bill.
In 1902 he declined to
stand as a candidate for renomination. Since 1903 Mr. Flynn has
been engaged in the active practice of law in Oklahoma City.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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