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Frank Henry Cooney (December 31, 1872 – December 15, 1935) was the ninth Governor of Montana from 1933 to 1935.

Biography

Cooney was born in Norwood, Ontario, Canada, and received a limited education in Catholic Schools. He dropped out of school at the age of fourteen and worked as a delivery boy in a grocery store and for a short time, he tried working with his father in the nursery business. He married to Emma May Poindexter Cooney on December 27, 1899, and the couple had six children, Francis H, John Phillip, Mary Margaret, Walter Poindexter, and twins, Tyler Thompson and Virginia Elizabeth.

Career

Cooney moved to Butte, Montana in July, 1891, and found employment in a grocery store. He then found a position in the wholesale department of the Davidson Grocery Company.

In 1894, Cooney and his brother, Howard C. Cooney, started the firm of Cooney Brothers. Later it was incorporated under the name of Cooney Brokerage company, a success from the beginning. The company continued to expand with the additions of livestock and agricultural holdings. He was public administrator for Silver Bow County, Montana from 1898-1900.

Elected lieutenant governor in 1932, Cooney served until March 13, 1933, when he assumed the duties of Governor John Edward Erickson, who left office to become a United States Senator. He is credited for reforming the state liquor laws and establishing a water conservation program.

Death

Cooney died, while holding the office of Governor on December 15, 1935, of heart failure and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Elmer Holt. He is interred at Saint Mary Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana USA.

References

1. "Former State Governors". www.netstate.com. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
2. "Frank Henry Cooney". Find A Grave. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
3. "Frank H. Cooney". Silver Bow Genealogy Trails. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
4. "Frank H. Cooney". National Governors Association. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
5. "Frank H. Cooney". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
6. "Frank Henry Cooney". Find A Grave. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

External links

• State of Montana profile
• National Governors Association biography
• The Political Graveyard
• Silver Bow Genealocy Trails
• Find A Grave

v t e Governors of Montana
Territorial (1864–1889)	Edgerton Meagher G. Smith Ashley Potts Crosby Carpenter Hauser Leslie White
State (since 1889)	Toole Rickards R. Smith Toole Norris Stewart Dixon Erickson Cooney Holt Ayers Ford Bonner Aronson Nutter Babcock Anderson Judge Schwinden Stephens Racicot Martz Schweitzer Bullock Gianforte

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• 1872 births
• 1935 deaths
• Lieutenant Governors of Montana
• Governors of Montana
• People from Silver Bow County, Montana
• Businesspeople from Montana
• American people of Irish descent
• Montana Democrats
• People from Butte, Montana
• Canadian emigrants to the United States
• Deaths from heart failure
• Democratic Party state governors of the United States