Background
Kinkead was born while his parents were on a visit abroad, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland on March 27, 1876.
United States representative politician
Kinkead was born while his parents were on a visit abroad, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland on March 27, 1876.
He attended parochial schools in Jersey City, New Jersey, and graduated from Seton Hall College in South Orange, New Jersey in 1895.
He was president of the Jersey Railway Advertising Company and the Orange Publishing Company Kinkead was president of the board of aldermen of Jersey City in 1898. Kinkead was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses and served in office from March 4, 1909, until February 4, 1915, when he resigned.
After leaving Congress, he was sheriff of Hudson County, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917, and played a role in the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916.
He was commissioned major of the military intelligence division of the American forces during World War I and stationed at the National War College in Washington, District of Columbia He was chairman of the executive committee of Colonial Trust Company in New York City from 1929-1960.
Kinkead died in South Orange, New Jersey, and was interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, New Jersey.
