Michael F. Farley
Tavern owner, liquor dealers' leader, and one-term U.S. representative.
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Michael Francis Farley, an Irish immigrant and New York tavern owner, served a single term in the U.S. House as a Democrat from 1915 to 1917. He led liquor dealers' associations and backed a 1916 resolution to keep America out of World War I. He died in 1921 from anthrax contracted from a shaving brush.
Tenure in Congress
Michael F. Farley, a Democrat, served a single term in the 64th Congress from 1915 to 1917. He backed the 1916 Gore–McLemore resolution, a measure designed to keep the U.S. neutral in World War I by discouraging travel on armed enemy ships. President Wilson fought the resolution, calling it a violation of personal liberty, and it was shelved by Congress. Farley lost his 1916 reelection bid to Fiorello H. La Guardia.
Death and burial
Farley died on October 8, 1921, from anthrax contracted from his shaving brush. He sought hospital treatment and received anti-anthrax serum, but the treatment failed. His death drew attention to a campaign by New York public health officials against imported infected hides and animal hair products, which had caused 11 deaths in the New York area. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York.
Did You Know?
- Farley immigrated to the United States in 1881, settling in Brooklyn and New York City.
- He was president of the Wine and Liquor Dealers Association of New York County and Manhattan's Central Association of Liquor Dealers.
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