Edmund O'Connor

Edmund O'Connor (November 1848 – July 15, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate in 1895.

Early life Edward O'Connor was born in November 1848 near Mallow, County Cork, Ireland. In the spring of 1851, the family moved to the United States and settled at Little Falls, New York. After the death of his father in 1862, he began to work at a railroad blacksmith shop in Little Falls. He attended local public and parochial schools in Little Falls and studied at Little Falls Academy and Delhi Academy from where he graduated in 1868. Then he studied law in the office of Judge Rollin H. Smith in Little Falls, was admitted to the bar in October 1870 in Oswego, New York. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

O'Connor died on July 15, 1898, at his home at 132 Prospect Avenue in Binghamton.