Background
He was born in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia and became a physician.
He was born in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia and became a physician.
Hartigan attended parochial school at North Sydney and high school at Sydney Mines.
In 1916, he made an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was first elected to Parliament at the Cape Breton South riding in the 1935 general election. After serving one term, the 18th Canadian Parliament, he was defeated by Clarence Gillis of the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) in the 1940 election.
Hartigan was unsuccessful at unseating Gillis in the 1945 election.
He died in 1952.