Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 1 June 1973 |
Term End: | 17 February 1993 |
Constituency: | Labour Panel |
Birth Date: | 10 December 1920 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Party: | Labour Party |
Spouse: | Myra Harte |
Children: | 4 |
Branch: | Royal Irish Fusiliers |
Battles: | World War II |
John Harte (10 December 1920 – 9 March 2015) was an Irish Labour Party Senator[1] who served for seven terms in the Seanad.[2]
Harte born in Dublin in 1920. During World War II he served with the British Army in the second battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Malta and the Middle East. He published his memoirs of the Second World War, To the Limits of Endurance: One Irishman's War. After the war, he worked for Guinness and became a trade union official.[3]
He was first elected to the 13th Seanad in the 1973 Seanad elections, on the Labour Panel. He was re-elected six times until his retirement at the 1992 elections.
In 2015, he died at the age of 94.[4]