Peter J. Ward

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For other persons named Peter Ward, see Peter Ward (disambiguation).

Peter Joseph Ward (1 November 1891 – 6 January 1970) was an Irish Sinn Féin (later Cumann na nGaedhael) politician who served as a TD in the first four Dáil Éireann.

He was elected at the 1918 general election as a Sinn Féin candidate in the Donegal South consttuency. As with the other Sinn Féin MPs, he did not take his seat in the British House of Commons, sitting instead in the First Dáil, which met in the Mansion House, Dublin in January, 1919.

He was elected in the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland for the new Donegal constituency, but he and the other Sinn Féin members again declined to take their seats, sitting instead in the Second Dáil.

At the 1922 general election, he was returned to the Third Dáil as a pro-treaty Sinn Féin TD, and re-elected at the 1923 election for the new Cumann na nGaedhael Party. He resigned his seat on 1 August 1924, and at the resuting by-election on on 20 November 1924 was won by the Cumann na nGaedhael candidate Denis McCullough, who had been president of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) during the Easter Rising of 1916.

[edit] External links

• Peter Ward's electoral history (ElectionsIreland.org)

This page incorporates information from the Oireachtas Members Database