1. Stephen O'Meara was a Canadian-born American journalist and political figure who was the first commissioner of the Boston Police Department and editor of The Boston Journal.
17 Facts About Stephen O'Meara
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Stephen O'Meara's family moved to a farm in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1864, but quickly left for Boston's Charlestown neighborhood.
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Stephen O'Meara joined the Boston Journal in 1874 as a legislative, political, and shorthand reporter.
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Clapp retired from the paper and Stephen O'Meara was given control of both the commercial and editorial sides of the paper.
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Soon thereafter, Stephen O'Meara fell ill with severe acute Bright's disease.
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On March 15,1895, O'Meara resigned from the paper and was replaced by Francis M Stanwood.
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In October 1902, Stephen O'Meara sold the paper to Frank Munsey and retired from publishing.
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On September 7,1904, Stephen O'Meara declared his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 11th congressional district.
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Stephen O'Meara lost the Republican nomination to Eugene Foss 2,993 votes to 2,271.
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In 1910, Stephen O'Meara again ran for Congress in the 11th District.
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Stephen O'Meara ran as a progressive and opposed Republican Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon.
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Stephen O'Meara lost the Republican nomination to conservative W Dudley Cotton Jr.
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Cotton had run an energetic campaign while Stephen O'Meara elected to not campaign at all.
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Stephen O'Meara arrived in Boston on June 2,1906 and took office on June 4.
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Stephen O'Meara's reappointment was opposed by a group of 150 Boston ministers, led by Willard Francis Mallalieu, as well as a group of South End women, who wanted public education activist Florence Page appointed to the position over the "weak and inefficient" O'Meara.
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Stephen O'Meara's reappointment was endorsed by the Good Government Association as well as another group of Protestant clergy, which included Thomas Van Ness, Herbert S Johnson, and Adolf A Berle Sr.
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Stephen O'Meara remained commissioner until his death on December 14,1918.