John P. Wilson

John Patrick Wilson ( Irish Seán Pádraig Mac Uilliam ; * July 8, 1923 in County Cavan ; † July 9, 2007 ) was an Irish politician of the Fianna Fáil , Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and several ministers.

biography

Wilson was first appointed to a government by Prime Minister Jack Lynch in 1977 as Minister of Education and held this office under Lynch's successor, Charles Haughey, until the Fianna Fáil was defeated on June 30, 1981. In Haughey's short-term cabinet he was later Minister for Post , Telegraphy and Transport from March 9 to December 14, 1982 .

After Fianna Fáil won the general election in 1987, he was appointed Minister of Tourism and Transport in the third Haughey cabinet on March 10, 1987 . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister of the Navy in 1989 and held this office until 1992. When Brian Lenihan senior resigned from the government as Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) on October 31, 1990 , because his party had nominated him as a candidate for the office of President of Ireland, Wilson was also deputy prime minister in Haughey's cabinet.

After Haughey handed over the office of prime minister to Albert Reynolds on February 11, 1992 , he took over the office of defense minister as well as the office of minister for the Irish-speaking territories ( Gaeltacht ) and continued to hold the office of deputy prime minister. On January 12, 1993, Wilson resigned from the cabinet.

Web links

• Short biography on rulers.org
• Entry on the side of the Oireachtas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irish Ministries