John Connor (Irish politician)

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John Connor (born 14 February 1944) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1981 general election as a TD for Roscommon. He lost his seat in general election of February 1982. He was nominated to the 17th Seanad by the Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. He was elected to the Agricultural Panel of the 18th Seanad in 1987. In the 1989 general election he re-gained his Dáil seat in the Roscommon constituency and was re-elected for the new Longford-Roscommon constituency in the 1992 general election. He again lost his Dáil seat in the 1997 general election but was again elected to the Agricultural Panel of the 21st Seanad. In the 2002 general election he failed to get elected to the Dáil and he also lost his Seanad seat.

In 1999, he was elected to Roscommon County Council, and was re-elected at the 2004 local elections.

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