User:Tham153/John E. Mullally

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John E. Mullally John E. Mullally (1875-1912) was the son of Irish immigrants, the third of six children. A political activist, he was a delegate at the founding meeting of the Union Labor Party, later switching to Republican, and as such was elected in 1910 to the California State Assembly from the 30th District, then encompassing part of San Francisco. He also owned a saloon located on 8th Street at the corner of Minna. In 1912 he was preparing to run for the State Senate when on the evening of January 14 three soldiers who had been conducting robberies of businesses in San Francisco entered his saloon. Mullally attempted to resist and was shot several times, dying in the arms of his wife, May.

His older sister Mary was a noted suffragette.

=In Fiction

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Mullally appears as a major character in the time travel/alternate history short story "Timely Misadventure"

References

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San Francisco Call, January 15, 1912, page 1

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