Background
Sullivan, Francis John was born on January 21, 1854 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of John and Katherine (Farrelly) Sullivan.
Sullivan, Francis John was born on January 21, 1854 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of John and Katherine (Farrelly) Sullivan.
Father a pioneer of California, 1844. Saint Ignatius College, San Francisco. Stonyhurst College, England.
Bachelor of Laws, Columbia Law School, New York, 1877.
Member California State Senate, 1882. Candidate on Democratic ticket for Congress, 1884 and 1886 (elected, 1886, so found in Congressional election case of Sullivan versus Felton). Park commissioner, San Francisco, 1902.
Democratic Presidential elector, 1904.
Anti-monopoly Democrat. Erected monument to Irish soldiers on battlefield of Fontenoy, 1900.
Orator at meeting of Irish people on the battlefield, 1905 and 1907, also on many other occasions in California and elsewhere. Obtained from Esdaile family previously unpublished verses by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on “Robert Emmett’s Grave.” Author: Ireland, Creator of the Common Law.
Home: San Francisco, California.
Member California State Senate, 1882.
Married Alice Phelan, philanthropist, May 11, 1882 (died 1912).