Career
A teacher by profession, he was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951 general election. He was re-elected at the 1957 general election. He did not contest the 1961 general election.
A teacher by profession, he was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951 general election. He was re-elected at the 1957 general election. He did not contest the 1961 general election.
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Cork South constituency at the 1954 general election. His nephew Liam Burke was a Fine Gael Territorial Decoration and Senator from 1969 to 2002.