Patrick Cunningham
Politician
1878 – 1960
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Who was Patrick Cunningham?
Patrick Cunningham was an Irish nationalist politician.
Cunningham, father to thirteen children, was elected to the Westminster House of Commons for the Nationalist Party as Member of Parliament Fermanagh and Tyrone at the 1935 general election.
Cunningham did not take his seat until 1945, and with Anthony Mulvey, also proposed that the Nationalist Party took an abstentionist policy with regard to the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Cunningham held his seat at the 1945 general election, but when the constituency was abolished at the 1950 election, he chose not to stand in another seat.
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