Jeremiah Connolly

Jeremiah Connolly (1875 – 2 October 1935) was an Independent Liberal Member of Parliament for Mid-Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.

Connolly was born in Geraldine in 1875 and educated at Hilton School.

During World War I Connolly was a member of the National Efficiency Board (1917–18) and of various patriotic societies.

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

[3] He collapsed and died in a taxi-cab in Wellington, when going from Parliament to his hotel.