Career
He was an unsuccessful Ulster Liberal Party candidate at the 1929 Westminster election for the Belfast East constituency.
He was an unsuccessful Ulster Liberal Party candidate at the 1929 Westminster election for the Belfast East constituency.
He was a Clann na Poblachta member of Seanad Éireann from 1948 to 1951. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 6th Seanad in 1948, and was the first resident of Northern Ireland to be appointed as a member of the Oireachtas.