Education
Born in Indiana, Summers attended the public schools. He was graduated from the Southern Indiana Normal College at Mitchell, Indiana, in 1889 and from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville in 1892.
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Career
He moved to Thomas County, Kansas, in 1888. Homesteaded there in 1892. Began teaching school when nineteen years of age.
Superintendent of schools for Thomas County 1894-1898. He was owner and editor of the Colby Free Press from 1897 to 1919. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.
Connelly was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1919). On Apr 5, 1917, he was one of 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.
He resumed his former business pursuits. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1908, 1920, and 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress.
He engaged in the real-estate business at Colby, Kansas. He died in Concordia, Kansas, September 9, 1940. He was interred in Beulah Cemetery, Colby, Kansas.
Membership
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1917. Summers was married to Jennie B. (Burks) Summers (1867–1956), a member of the Christian Women's Temperance Union, as well as active member of many club, church and organizational groups.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party