Caleb Powell Explained

Caleb Powell
Office:	Member of Parliament for
Term Start:	10 July 1841
Term End:	14 August 1847
Predecessor:	William Smith O'Brien Richard FitzGibbon
Successor:	William Smith O'Brien William Monsell
Alongside:	William Smith O'Brien
Birth Date:	1793
Nationality:	Irish
Party:	Repeal Association
Otherparty:	Whig

Caleb Powell (1793 – 24 February 1881)^[1] was an Irish Repeal Association and Whig politician.^{[2] [3]}

Powell was first elected Whig MP for at the 1841 general election and held the seat until 1847 when, standing as a Repeal Association candidate, he was defeated.^{[2] [3] [4]}

He was High Sheriff of County Limerick in 1858.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "L" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 24 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911195229/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons2.htm. 11 September 2018 . usurped . 30 August 2018 .
2. Web site: Caleb Powell . Members of Parliament after 1832 . History of Parliament Online . 24 August 2019.
3. Book: Smith. Henry Stooks. The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections. 1842. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 232. Second. 5 October 2018 . Google Books.
4. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 0901714127.