McNAMARA, John, clergyman, born in Dromore County Down, Ireland, 27 December, 1824; d. in North Platte, Nebraska, 24 October, 1885. He was educated at St. Paul's college, Flushing, L. I., and completed his theological course at the General theological seminary of New York. He was assistant to Ray. William A. Muhlenberg, D. D., in St. Luke's hospital, and was then a missionary of the Protestant Episcopal church in Kansas. He was clerical deputy to the general convention for many years from Nebraska, where he was pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in North Platte. In 1869 the degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Nebraska college, of which institution he was president for several years. He is the author of " Three Years on the Kansas Border" (New York, 1852), and "The Black Code of Kansas " (1857).