Viewing John T. O'Connell (1882-1953).John T. O'Connell (1882-1953).John T. O'Donnell joined the Minneapolis City Attorney's office in 1911, when he was twenty-nine years old. Over the decades he specialized in defending workers compensation and damage claims against the city. He was promoted from assistant to first assistant to City Attorney in 1947. Because of mandatory retirement laws, he left office in July 1947 when he reached the age of sixty-five. He was in private practice for about six years. He died on March 4, 1953, at age seventy. The following month, W. W. Gibson delivered a tribute to him at memorial services of the county bar association. |