Patrick Baxter (politician)

Patrick Baxter
Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
In office
22 July 1954 – 22 May 1957
Preceded byLiam Ó Buachalla
Succeeded byLiam Ó Buachalla
Senator
In office
27 September 1938 – 3 April 1959
ConstituencyAgricultural Panel
Senator
In office
12 December 1934 – 29 May 1936
Teachta Dála
In office
August 1923 – September 1927
ConstituencyCavan
Personal details
Born(1891-10-01)1 October 1891
County Cavan, Ireland
Died3 April 1959(1959-04-03) (aged 67)
County Cavan, Ireland
Political partyClann na Talmhan
Other political
affiliations

Patrick Francis Baxter (1 October 1891 – 3 April 1959) was an Irish politician from County Cavan. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) in the 1920s, and later a Senator for over 25 years, serving as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957.[1]

Baxter was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election, when he won a seat as Farmers' Party TD for Cavan in the 4th Dáil.[2] He had stood unsuccessfully in the 1922 general election, but after topping the poll in 1923 he was re-elected at the June 1927 general election with his vote halved. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election.

After the collapse of the Farmers' Party in the late 1920s, he made three further unsuccessful attempts to return to the Dáil: at the 1932 general election as a Cumann na nGaedheal candidate in Cavan, at the 1933 general election as a National Centre Party candidate in Clare, and as a Fine Gael candidate in Cavan at the 1943 general election.[3]

He was elected in 1934 as a senator for Fine Gael, for a nine-year term, but the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. When the house was re-established, he was re-elected in 1938 to the 2nd Seanad on the Agricultural Panel,[4] and held the seat until his death in office in 1959.[2] He was a Clann na Talmhan senator from 1938 onwards.

References

  1. ^ "Patrick Baxter". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Death of Leas-Chathaoirleach: Expression of Sympathy". Houses of the Oireachtas. 29 April 1959. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Patrick Baxter". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  4. ^ The 2nd Seanad Éireann was actually the first Seanad elected under the 1937 constitution. This is because the Free State Seanad was considered to be in continuous session, since its members were elected for a period of nine years, with elections every three years for those senators whose terms had expired. The Free State Seanad is therefore collectively known as the First Seanad.
Oireachtas
Preceded by Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
1954–1957 		Succeeded by