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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. Cooney 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

He moved to Butte, Montana in July, 1891, and found employment in a grocery store, and then found a position in the wholesale department of the Davidson Grocery Company. In 1894, he 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.

Cooney, was public administrator for Silver Bow County, Montana from 1898-1900.

He was elected lieutenant governor in 1932. In 1933, he replaced 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 in office in 1935 of heart failure. He is interred at Saint Mary Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula Coounty, Montana USA.

References

  1. "Frank Henry Cooney". Find A Grave. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  2. "Frank H. Cooney". Silver Bow Genealogy Trails. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  3. "Frank Henry Cooney". Find A Grave. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

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Governors of Montana
Territorial (1864–1889)
State (since 1889)

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