Myles Staunton
Myles Staunton | |
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Senator | |
In office November 1989 – February 1993 | |
Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
In office October 1977 – May 1982 | |
Constituency | Administrative Panel |
Teachta Dála | |
In office February 1973 – June 1977 | |
Constituency | Mayo West |
Personal details | |
Born | (1935-09-24)24 September 1935 County Mayo, Ireland |
Died | 22 June 2011(2011-06-22) (aged 75) County Mayo, Ireland |
Political party | Fine Gael |
Myles Staunton (24 September 1935 – 22 June 2011) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and businessman from Westport, County Mayo.
He first stood for election at the 1969 general election for the Mayo West constituency but was unsuccessful. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo West at the 1973 general election.[1] He lost his Dáil seat at the 1977 general election but was elected to the 14th Seanad on the Administrative Panel. He stood unsuccessfully as the Fine Gael candidate at the 1979 European election for the Connacht–Ulster constituency. He was re-elected to the 15th Seanad in 1981.[2]
He stood again for the Dáil at the 1989 general election but was not elected. He was elected to the 19th Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial Panel in 1989.
He died on 22 June 2011.[3]
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
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19th | 1969 | Mícheál Ó Móráin (FF) | Joseph Lenehan (FF) | Henry Kenny (FG) | |||
20th | 1973 | Denis Gallagher (FF) | Myles Staunton (FG) | ||||
1975 by-election | Enda Kenny (FG) | ||||||
21st | 1977 | Pádraig Flynn (FF) | |||||
22nd | 1981 | ||||||
23rd | 1982 (Feb) | ||||||
24th | 1982 (Nov) | ||||||
25th | 1987 | ||||||
26th | 1989 | Martin O'Toole (FF) | |||||
27th | 1992 | Séamus Hughes (FF) | |||||
1994 by-election | Michael Ring (FG) | ||||||
28th | 1997 | Constituency abolished. See Mayo |