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Irish Labour Party politician and trade unionist (died 1945)

Thomas Lawlor
Teachta Dála
In office
July 1937 – June 1938
In office
June 1927 – September 1927
ConstituencyDublin South
Personal details
BornDublin, Ireland
Died(1945-10-29)29 October 1945
Dublin, Ireland
Political partyLabour Party

Thomas Lawlor (died 29 October 1945) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.

In 1925 the Labour Party identified high taxation as a government weakness and decided to contest the Dublin South and Dublin North by-elections. Lawlor, as general secretary of the Irish Municipal Employees' Trade Union was the candidate in Dublin South, with Denis Cullen of the Irish Bakers Union running in Dublin North. Neither of them were elected.

Lawlor was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency at the June 1927 general election. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1932 general election but re-gained his seat at the 1937 general election. He lost his seat again at the 1938 general election.

At the 1943 general election he was an unsuccessful independent candidate in the Carlow–Kilkenny East constituency.

References

  1. "Obituary: Mr Thomas Lawlor". Irish Times. 30 October 1945.
  2. ^ "Thomas Lawlor". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
  3. Taxation In Irish Free State. The Times. 19 January 1925.
  4. ^ "Thomas Lawlor". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
Trade union offices
Preceded byDan Magee General Secretary of the Irish Municipal Employees' Trade Union
1920–1939
Succeeded byFrank Foley
Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Dublin South constituency
This table is transcluded from Dublin South (Dáil constituency). (edit | history)
Dáil Election Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
2nd 1921 Thomas Kelly
(SF)
Daniel McCarthy
(SF)
Constance Markievicz
(SF)
Cathal Ó Murchadha
(SF)
4 seats
1921–1923
3rd 1922 Thomas Kelly
(PT-SF)
Daniel McCarthy
(PT-SF)
William O'Brien
(Lab)
Myles Keogh
(Ind)
4th 1923 Philip Cosgrave
(CnaG)
Daniel McCarthy
(CnaG)
Constance Markievicz
(Rep)
Cathal Ó Murchadha
(Rep)
Michael Hayes
(CnaG)
Peadar Doyle
(CnaG)
1923 by-election Hugh Kennedy
(CnaG)
March 1924 by-election James O'Mara
(CnaG)
November 1924 by-election Seán Lemass
(SF)
1925 by-election Thomas Hennessy
(CnaG)
5th 1927 (Jun) James Beckett
(CnaG)
Vincent Rice
(NL)
Constance Markievicz
(FF)
Thomas Lawlor
(Lab)
Seán Lemass
(FF)
1927 by-election Thomas Hennessy
(CnaG)
6th 1927 (Sep) Robert Briscoe
(FF)
Myles Keogh
(CnaG)
Frank Kerlin
(FF)
7th 1932 James Lynch
(FF)
8th 1933 James McGuire
(CnaG)
Thomas Kelly
(FF)
9th 1937 Myles Keogh
(FG)
Thomas Lawlor
(Lab)
Joseph Hannigan
(Ind)
Peadar Doyle
(FG)
10th 1938 James Beckett
(FG)
James Lynch
(FF)
1939 by-election John McCann
(FF)
11th 1943 Maurice Dockrell
(FG)
James Larkin Jnr
(Lab)
John McCann
(FF)
12th 1944
13th 1948 Constituency abolished. See Dublin South-Central, Dublin South-East and Dublin South-West.


Note that the boundaries of Dublin South from 1981–2016 share no common territory with the 1921–1948 boundaries. See §History and boundaries

Dáil Election Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
22nd 1981 Niall Andrews
(FF)
Séamus Brennan
(FF)
Nuala Fennell
(FG)
John Kelly
(FG)
Alan Shatter
(FG)
23rd 1982 (Feb)
24th 1982 (Nov)
25th 1987 Tom Kitt
(FF)
Anne Colley
(PDs)
26th 1989 Nuala Fennell
(FG)
Roger Garland
(GP)
27th 1992 Liz O'Donnell
(PDs)
Eithne FitzGerald
(Lab)
28th 1997 Olivia Mitchell
(FG)
29th 2002 Eamon Ryan
(GP)
30th 2007 Alan Shatter
(FG)
2009 by-election George Lee
(FG)
31st 2011 Shane Ross
(Ind)
Peter Mathews
(FG)
Alex White
(Lab)
32nd 2016 Constituency abolished. See Dublin Rathdown, Dublin South-West and Dún Laoghaire.


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