O'Neill, John J
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 25, 1846, in St. Louis, Mo. He was in the government civil service during the civil war, and was afterward engaged in manufacturing pursuits. In 1872 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and was re-elected in 1874 and 1876. He was elected to the municipal assembly of St. Louis in 1879, and re-elected in 1881.
In 1884 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-electeu to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.