Seán Moylan

Seán Moylan (Irish Seán Ó Maoláin, born November 19, 1888 in Kilmallock, County Limerick, † November 16, 1957 ) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and the Fianna Fáil.

Biography

Moylan was a building contractor and was founded in 1921 as a representative of Sinn Féin as a member of the lower house ( Dáil Éireann ) and elected in 1922, North, South, South - East, West re-elected in the constituency of Cork Mid. However, as opponents of the Anglo -Irish Treaty of 1921, he did not take his seat in the House and was therefore within the Sinn Féin to the so-called treaty opponents ( anti- Treaty ). In 1923 he renounced a new candidate for the House of Commons.

It was not until 1932 he appeared as a candidate of the Fianna Fáil again at the general election and represented by eight subsequent re- elections until 1957, the interests of the constituency of Cork North.

In July 1937 he was parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Industry and Trade, and held that office after a brief interruption from May to June 1938 to 9 February 1943. At the same time he was from August 1939 to June 26, 1943 1943 parliamentary secretary to Minister of Defence and from February 10 to June 26, 1943 parliamentary secretary to Minister of Finance.

On July 2, 1943 it Taoiseach (Prime Minister ) Éamon de Valera appointed for the first time in his cabinet, where he served until the election defeat of Fianna Fáil on 18 February 1948 as Minister of lands. After the Fianna Fáil the general election in 1951 won against the Fine Gael, he was on 13 June 1951 to the June 2, 1954 Minister of Education in the cabinet of de Valera.

In the parliamentary elections in 1957, he suffered a defeat and resigned from the House of. However, he was nominated by Prime Minister de Valera as a member of the Senate ( Seanad Eireann ) and belonged to this until his death, representing the Fianna Fáil. At the same time he was in the Cabinet de Valera from 16 May until his death on November 16, 1957 Minister of Agriculture. He was the first senator who was appointed as a member of a government minister.