Education
Originally from Michigan where he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, Michigan, McNulty removed to Sioux City, Iowa where he practiced law and served as a state representative in the Iowa General Assembly.
Originally from Michigan where he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, Michigan, McNulty removed to Sioux City, Iowa where he practiced law and served as a state representative in the Iowa General Assembly.
He represented District 58 in Woodbury County, Iowa. Not a year after his term of office ended, after gold was discovered in Nome, Alaska (Cape Nome) in 1899, McNulty moved there. At least one of his successfully argued cases is published.
In 1904, Republican Philander C. Knox, United States Attorney General in the Cabinets of both United States. Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and the 7 term United States. Senator from Iowa (prior having served four terms as a United States Representative from the state) Republican William B. Allison both endorsed McNulty for appointment as United States. Attorney for the District of Alaska.
The position had been recently vacated by Marvin Grisby.