Michael John Egan (June 2, 1827 – January 23, 1910)[1] was an American merchant and insurance agent who served two years as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate and two as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee County.
[2] Egan was born in the city of Kilkenny, Ireland on June 2, 1827.
He was a state senator in 1860 and 1861 from the Sixth District (3rd, 4th, 5th and 8th Wards of the City of Milwaukee, and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake Oak Creek and Wauwatosa), succeeding fellow Democrat and native of Ireland Patrick Walsh; during the 1861 session he was on the standing committees on the militia, on education, school, and university lands, on enrolled bills, and on railroads.
He had been chairman of the town board for fifteen years and chairman of the County board of supervisors for several years, and a justice of the peace for thirty years, when he was elected to the Assembly's 12th Milwaukee County district (the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake and Oak Creek) for 1883, receiving 979 votes, against 746 for Republican R. M. Berry.
[4] He was not a candidate for re-election in 1884, and was succeeded by Republican James Lemont (also a native of Ireland).