Career
He was elected to the Free State Seanad for 9 years at the 1922 election.
He was elected to the Free State Seanad for 9 years at the 1922 election.
He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1923. A trade union official from County Sligo, he was a member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners union and served as the president of the Irish Trade Union Congress in 1917.