Patrick Sullivan

Patrick J. Sullivan was born March 17, 1865, on a farm west of Bantry, County Cork, Ireland; educated in a national school near his home; in April 1888, came to America, landing in New York the following June arrived in Rawlins, Wyoming, and later settled in Casper, where he developed a large sheep industry; took out his final citizenship papers in 1894; his public life began in 1894 when he was elected representative from Natrona County to the Third Wyoming Legislature, and in 1898 was reelected to the same office; four times elected to the State senate, serving from 1900 to 1916; served as mayor of Casper for two terms, beginning in 1897; elected second vice-president of the Casper Chamber of Commerce when it was organized in 1903; interested in banking and oil production; served six years as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee; for over 20 years held the position of Republican National Committeeman from Wyoming; appointed December 5, 1929, by Governor Emerson, to succeed the late Senator Francis E. Warren, and took his seat in the United States Senate December 9, 1929. His term of office expiring December 1, 1930, when Robert D. Carey, who was elected November 4, 1930 to fill the balance of Francis E. Warren's unexpired term, took office; retired from public life in 1931; died at Santa Barbara, California, April 8, 1935, interment, Casper, Wyoming.