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Clancy, John M

capitalist, congressman, was born May 7, 1837, in Ireland. He immigrated with his parents to New York; was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is in the real estate business; He served as an alderman of the city of Brooklyn from 1868 to 1875, and was a member of the state assembly from 1878 to 1881. He was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat, receiving 20,697 votes, against 13,593 votes for Grace, republican. a

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