Peter H. McNulty

{{short description|American politician and businessman}}

Peter H. McNulty (1818-1902), a merchant and real estate operator and, concurrently, an officer from 1880 (3rd Battalion) and a major from 1889 (Quartermaster, 2nd Brigade) in the New York National Guard, was a multi term turn of the 19th century Democratic Party (USA) New York State Senator from Brooklyn's 6th District (119th New York State Legislature,Edgar L. Murlin The New York Red Book, ed. James Malcolm, Albany: J.B. Lyon Co. © 1917, p. 404, Harvard University, digitized January 10, 2007 120th New York State Legislatureagain, Edgar L. Murlin The New York Red Book, ed. James Malcolm, Albany: J.B. Lyon Co. © 1917, p. 404, Harvard University, digitized January 10, 2007 and 121st New York State Legislature). McNulty apparently a few years after this service in the legislature died, remarkably, of "acute indigestion".Biographical Directory of the State of New York 1900, New York City (Park Row Building): Biographical Directory Company, Inc. (1900), p 307, Harvard University, digitized February 12, 2009[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/09/06/118477908.pdf] New York Times September 6, 1902 (obituary noting cause of death as "acute indigestion")

Major McNulty's legislative tenure on each end just missed Theodore Roosevelt's earlier tenure therein and Roosevelt's later return to New York state politics as its Governor.W. Johnson, R. Brown, W. Spooner and W. Holly History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Press, Inc. © 1922 New York Public Library, digitized December 21, 2005, Vol. 4 1896-1922, pp 36, 45-70