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John F. Finerty

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In March 1879, attached to the American Industrial Deputation to Mexico by Storey, Finerty was the first U.S. journalist to be granted an audience with President Diaz at the National Palace. Finerty reported the eighty delegates and their spouses attending the Deputation as including, among other
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twice sent "the Reckless Hibernian," as Finerty was known, south of the border to report. Finerty extensively documented these excursions, which he intended to publish as a book, later independently compiled and published by the
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Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). He served as member of the board of local improvements 1906-1908. He died in Chicago, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery.
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Finerty's account of these events includes whimsical anecdotes of unguarded moments with the delegates. At the conclusion of the Deputation's itinerary at
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Speaker of the Kentucky Senate, attributed by Finerty as "Governor" due to the wartime succession of events occurring after the governorship of
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Reception of the American Deputation by President Porfirio Diaz in the National Palace, Ciudad de México, March 15, 1879.
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Of his first foray into Porfirian Mexico, Finerty documented contemporary reactions to the election of President
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and served in the Ninety-ninth Regiment of the New York State Militia. He was a war correspondent for the
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Independent Democrat members of the United States House of Representatives
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of Milwaukee, German-American Democratic Congressman and newspaper editor
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Members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
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of 1876, in the Northern Indian (Sioux) War of 1879, in the
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to edit this manuscript, which was published in 1974.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Illinois
2nd
George R. Davis
Frank Lawler
Galway
Chicago
Illinois
Democratic
U.S. Congressional Representative
Illinois
Galway
Ireland
Tipperary
Father John Kenyon
Civil War
Union Army
Chicago Times
Sioux War
Ute
Apache campaign
Washington, D.C.
Forty-sixth
Chicago
Chicago Times
Wilbur F. Storey
University of Texas at El Paso
Porfirio Díaz
San Antonio

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