Denis Michael Hurley (March 14, 1843 - February 26, 1899) was a United States Representative from New York, 1895-1899. Hurley, a Brooklynite, was born in Limerick in County Limerick in Ireland. Hurley was the son of Michael Hurley and Catherine Cusick, and immigrated to the United States in 1850. He had a brother named Patrick, and two sisters named Mary (the elder of whom apparently died in infancy. According to the book of eulogies delivered on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in 1899 (because Congressman Hurley died at the very end of his final term of elected office, so was commemorated publicly by his peers), he was a self-made man who rose from being a poor orphan boy to being a Congressman. Some of this persona presented to the public was a bit of political sp