Paudge Brennan
Patrick "Paudge" Brennan (born February 18, 1922 , † June 10, 1998 ) was an Irish politician of the Clann na Poblachta , the Fianna Fáil and most recently the Irish Labor Party , which took place between 1954 and 1973, 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987 Member of the House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ) and in the meantime from February to November 1982 member of the Senate ( Seanad Éireann ) was.
Life
Brennan was the son of the building contractor Thomas Brennan , who was also a member of the Dáil Éireann as a representative of the Fianna Fáil from 1944 until his death on January 22, 1953. He himself worked as a farmer and ran for the Clann na Poblachta for the first time in the elections on February 4, 1948 in the constituency of Kildare for a mandate in the House of Commons, but suffered an election defeat. When necessitated by the death of his father -election ( by-election ) in the constituency Wicklow he applied for Fianna Fáil, but lost to the candidate of Fine Gael , Mark Deering .
In the elections of May 14, 1954 Brennan was first elected to the Fianna Fáil as a member of Dáil Éireann and represented in this after his re-election on March 5, 1957 , October 4, 1961 , April 7, 1965 and June 18, 1969 the Wicklow constituency .
After the April 7, 1965 elections, Brennan was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government by Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) Seán Lemass , and he also held this junior ministerial post under Jack Lynch , Lemass's successor, until his resignation on May 8, 1970.
After he had subsequently resigned from the Fianna Fáil, he was a non-attached MP in the lower house. In the elections of February 28, 1973 , he applied as a non-party in the Wicklow constituency for re-entry into the Dáil Éireann, but suffered a defeat and left the House of Commons after 19 years. In the elections of June 11, 1981 he ran again for the Fianna Fáil and was again elected to the constituency of Wicklow as a member of the House of Commons. However, he lost this mandate again after the subsequent elections to the Dáil Éireann on February 28, 1982 and was instead nominated at the proposal of Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey as a member of the Senate ( Seanad Éireann ), to which he was formally nominated from May 13 to 21 December 1982 belonged to.
In the elections of November 24, 1982 he was re-elected a member of the Dáil Éireann and again represented the constituency of Wicklow . During this 24th legislative period , he resigned from the Fianna Fáil and joined the Irish Labor Party. For this he applied in the elections of February 17, 1987 again for a mandate in the lower house, but achieved the worst result with only 519 votes among the seven candidates for the three mandates to be awarded in this constituency. He then withdrew from political life.
Web links
- Homepage of the Oireachtas
- Entry on electionsireland.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brennan on the Oireachtas homepage
- ↑ Thomas Brennan at electionsireland.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brennan, Paudge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brennan, Patrick (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish politicians (Clann na Poblachta, Fianna Fáil and Irish Labor Party) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1922 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1998 |