George Murnaghan
George Murnaghan (4 July 1847 โ 13 January 1929) was an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He represented the Mid Tyrone constituency from the 1895 United Kingdom general election, until the January 1910 United Kingdom general election.
Biography
Murnaghan emigrated to the US in the late 1860s, where he was a housebuilder and keeper of a
St Louis, Missouri. He married Angela Mooney, originally from Dublin
with whom he had 9 children. He and his wife returned to Ireland in the late 1880s for health reasons.
Francis Dominic Murnaghan, Jr., a United States federal judge, was his grandson. James Murnaghan, judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, was his son. Sheelagh Murnaghan, Ulster Liberal Party MP in Northern Ireland
was his granddaughter.
References
- House of Commons page[usurped]
- Lewis, D. W. (2003). "'To the Glory of God, Honour of Ireland and Fame of America': A Biographical Sketch of JSTOR 20459847.
External links
- Hansard 1803โ2005: contributions in Parliament by George Murnaghan
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