Career
A brick and stone layer before entering politics, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Kildare–Wicklow constituency at the 1922 general election. He was re-elected at the 1923 general election for the Kildare constituency and was again re-elected at the June 1927 and September 1927 general elections.
