James Ryan (politician)

James Ryan ( Irish Séamas Ó Riain ; * December 6, 1891 , † September 25, 1970 ) was an Irish politician of the Fianna Fáil and multiple ministers.

biography

Ryan completed a medical degree and worked as a doctor after graduation . In addition, he later became a farmer and company director.

He began his political career as early as 1919 when he was elected member of the First Parliament ( First Dáil ) as a candidate for the Sinn Féin . In the following decades he was elected as a representative of the constituency of Wexford again and again to the MP ( Teachta Dála ), where he was from 1927 representative of the Fianna Fáil until he left the Dáil Éireann in 1965.

On March 9, 1932 he was appointed by the President of the Executive Council Éamon de Valera as Minister of Agriculture of the first government appointed by the Fianna Fáil. He held this office for the next almost fifteen years until January 21, 1947. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) de Valera then appointed him Minister of Health and Minister of Social Welfare. On February 18, 1948 he left the government after the Fianna Fáil lost power. After de Valera became Prime Minister again on June 13, 1951, Dr. Ryan returned to the offices of Minister of Health and Minister of Social Welfare until June 2, 1954.

Most recently he was finance minister in the governments of de Valera between March 1957 and April 1965 and his successor Seán Lemass . After leaving the Dáil Éireann in 1965, he was nominated for the Seanad Éireann and was a member of it until 1969.

His son Eoin Ryan senior and grandson Eoin Ryan junior have also become politically active.

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