Luke A. Keenan
Luke A. Keenan (April 10, 1872 – December 1924) was an American politician from New York.
Life
[edit]He was born on April 10, 1872, in New York City. He attended the public schools until 1886. Then he studied architecture at the Cooper Union for three years, and afterwards worked as a plasterer. He became active in the trade union movement, and was the plasterers' representative in the building trades section of the Central Labor Union of New York. In 1891, he removed to Astoria, Queens.[1]
Keenan was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 1st D.) in 1901 and 1902.[2]
He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1903 to 1906, sitting in the 126th, 127th, 128th and 129th New York State Legislatures.
He died in December 1924.[3]
Sources
[edit]- ^ The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 84f)
- ^ Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 344, 346 and 365)
- ^ Obituary in the New York Times on December 16, 1924 (subscription required)