Eugene Francis Kinkead (March 27, 1876 – September 6, 1960), was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 9th congressional district from 1909 to 1913, and the 8th district from 1913 to 1915.

[1] Kinkead was born while his parents were on a visit abroad, in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland, United Kingdom on March 27, 1876.

Kinkead was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses and served in office from March 4, 1909, until February 4, 1915, when he resigned.

[2] After leaving Congress, he was sheriff of Hudson County, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917, and played a role in the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916.

[3] He was commissioned major of the military intelligence division of the American forces during World War I and stationed at the National War College in Washington, D.C.[1] He was chairman of the executive committee of Colonial Trust Co. in New York City from 1929-1960.