David Kent (politician)
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David Kent (died November 1930) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.
He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin MP for the Cork East constituency in the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Kent did not attend.[1] He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East and North East constituency in the 1921 elections. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency in the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, and he did sit in the Dáil from this time onwards. He was elected as a Republican TD for Cork East constituency in the 1923 general election. He was elected as one of five Sinn Féin TDs in the June 1927 general election. He did not contest the September 1927 general election.
His brother William Kent was also a TD in the 1920s and 1930s.
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[edit] References
- ^ Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil (Irish). Dáil Éireann Historical Debates (19 January 1919). Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
- This page incorporates information from this member's entry in the Oireachtas Members Database
[edit] External links
- David Kent's electoral history (ElectionsIreland.org)
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