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Dennis Thomas Flynn

Dennis Thomas Flynn (13 February 1861-19 June 1939) was a delegate to the US House of Representatives (R-OK) from 4 March 1893 to 3 March 1897 (succeeding David A. Harvey and preceding James Y. Callahan) and from 4 March 1899 to 3 March 1903 (succeeding Callahan and preceding Bird S. McGuire).

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Dennis Thomas Flynn was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania in 1861, and he was raised by his mother in Buffalo, New York. He moved to Riverside, Iowa after college and edited the Riverside Leader, and he became a lawyer in Kiowa, Kansas in 1882, published the Kiowa Herald, served as Postmaster of Kiowa from 1884 to 1885, served as city attorney of Kiowa from 1886 to 1889, served as Postmaster of Guthrie, Oklahoma from 1889 to 1892, and served as a territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897 and from 1899 to 1903. His last participation in politics was to serve as a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention, and he died in Oklahoma City in 1939 at the age of 78.

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