Career
Foreign the American ice hockey player of the same name, see T. J. Tynan
He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Leix–Offaly constituency at the June 1927 general election. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election having only served 3 months as a Territorial Decoration.