Background
Kehoe, James N. was born on July 15, 1862 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States. Son of James and Nora Kehoe.
United States representative politician
Kehoe, James N. was born on July 15, 1862 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States. Son of James and Nora Kehoe.
He engaged in the printing business until 1884, and studied law in Louisville, Kentucky before being admitted to the bar on November 1, 1888, and engaged in practice in Maysville.
He served as precinct, county, and district chairman of the Democratic executive committee, and the city attorney of Maysville. He also served as master in chancery of the Mason County Circuit Court. Kehoe was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1905).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress.
He then served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912, and as vice president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and of the Burley Tobacco Growers" Cooperation Association. He also engaged in banking and served as president of the Kentucky Bankers" Association.
Kehoe died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1945 and was interred in Maysville Cemetery, Maysville, Kentucky.
Member 57th and 58th Congresses (1901-1905), 9th Kentucky District. Member executive council American Bankers Association (member Executive Committee State Bank Division), Kentucky Bankers Association (dean, ex-president). Chairman; Mason County Liberty Loan Committee, American Red Cross Society.
Married Hannah M. Kane, September 24, 1892 (died, October 28, 1910). Married second, Frances Reed Calvert, April. Children: Irene Marie (deceased), West. H. (deceased), James A., Mary (deceased), Ruth.