Career
A builders foreman, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an National League Party Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Louth constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the September 1927 general election but became an independent Territorial Decoration in July 1931 following the disbandment of the National League Party. He was re-elected as an independent Territorial Decoration at the 1932 and 1933 general elections.
He was re-elected at each general election until the 1951 general election.