12 Facts About Paul Cantwell

Paul Francis Cantwell was an American politician, active in Indianapolis, who served as a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives.

Paul Cantwell served in the United States Navy during World War II.

Paul Cantwell began his career as a masonry contractor and became an advocate for trade unions.

Paul Cantwell began serving on the Indianapolis City-County Council after the city-county consolidation that established the Unigov in 1970.

In 1975, Paul Cantwell was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit arguing that the legislation creating Unigov denied certain voters the equal protection guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Paul Cantwell resigned from the city council to focus on his campaign as the Democratic nominee in the 1979 Indianapolis mayoral election.

Paul Cantwell argued that the charges were political, and were retribution for his investigations of police corruption.

In 1992, Paul Cantwell was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives district 97.

Paul Cantwell won the general election by a narrow 250-vote margin over Republican nominee Irene Heffley.

Paul Cantwell was an opponent of the construction of the Victory Field baseball stadium in Indianapolis, strongly preferring to see the continued use of the existing Bush Stadium.

In 1994, Paul Cantwell lost reelection to Irene Heffley by 4,782 votes to 4,037 votes amid the year of the "Republican Revolution".

On June 30,1997, Paul Cantwell died of laryngeal cancer at the age of 69.