Charles Anthony MOONEY, Congress, OH (1879-1931)

MOONEY, Charles Anthony, a Representative from Ohio; born in St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, January 5, 1879; attended the public and Jesuit schools; was graduated from St. Marys High School in 1895; engaged in the life insurance business at St. Marys; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1910 and continued the life insurance business; member of the State senate 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1928; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1931; interment in Gethsemane Cemetery, St. Marys, Ohio.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present