Timothy O'Donovan explained

Office:Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
Term Start:21 April 1948
Term End:14 August 1951
Predecessor:Seán Goulding
Successor:Liam Ó Buachalla
Office2:Senator
Term Start2:18 August 1944
Term End2:22 July 1954
Constituency2:Agricultural Panel
Office3:Teachta Dála
Term Start3:August 1923
Term End3:May 1944
Constituency3:Cork West
Birth Date:4 April 1881
Birth Place:County Cork, Ireland
Death Place:County Cork, Ireland
Party:Fine Gael

Timothy Joseph O'Donovan (4 April 1881 – 28 June 1957)[1] was a Farmers' Party and Fine Gael politician from County Cork in Ireland. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1923 to 1944, then a senator from 1944 until 1954, serving as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1948 to 1951.[2]

O'Donovan was elected at the 1923 general election to the 4th Dáil as a Farmers' Party TD for the Cork West constituency.[3] He was re-elected at seven further general elections until his defeat at the 1944 general election to the 12th Dáil, after several changes of party affiliation. After the demise of the Farmers' Party in the 1920s, he was re-elected in 1933 as a National Centre Party TD, and when the National Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal to form Fine Gael, he joined the new party.

After the loss of his Dáil seat in 1944, he was elected at the subsequent Seanad Éireann election to the 5th Seanad, on the Agricultural Panel. He was re-elected in 1948 to the 6th Seanad, serving as Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad from 1948 to 1951. He died in 1957.

Notes and References

  1. Irish Times (29 June 1957), "Obituary, Mr. T. J. Donovan"
  2. Web site: Timothy O'Donovan . Oireachtas Members Database. 17 February 2008.
  3. Web site: Timothy O'Donovan. ElectionsIreland.org. 19 May 2012.