Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 27 October 1977 |
Term End: | 8 October 1981 |
Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Death Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Richard Valentine Jago (1913 – 2 November 1983) was a politician and businessman in Cork city in Ireland. He was Secretary of the Cork Methodist Association in 1940,[1] Lord Mayor of Cork from 1957 to 1958 when a member of the Cork Civic Party,[2] and chairman of the Cork Chamber of commerce from 1964 to 1965.[3]
After the Civic Party's dissolution in 1966 he joined Fianna Fáil and was nominated to the Seanad by the Taoiseach after the 1977 general election,[4] serving until 1981. He was an unsuccessful Fianna Fáil candidate at the November 1982 general election for the Cork South-Central constituency.[5]