Robert Lahiffe

Robert Lahiffe (1911 – 8 March 1975) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and farmer. He served in the Oireachtas for 7 years as a Teachta Dála (TD), and then as a senator for 8 years.cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=15&MemberID=607&ConstID=107 |title=Mr. Robert Lahiffe |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-01-08]

Lahiffe was elected to the 13th Dáil at the 1948 general election as a TD for Galway South. He was defeated at the 1951 general election by Fine Gael's Patrick Cawley, but two years later was re-elected at a by-election in August 1953 following the death of Frank Fahy, a Fianna Fáil TD who as Ceann Comhairle had been returned unopposed in 1951. Lahiffe held the seat at the general election in 1954,cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=2290 |title=Robert Lahiffe |publisher=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-01-08] but was ousted again at the 1957 general election. Fianna Fáil had run three candidates in three-seat constituency, and Lahiffe was beaten by his first-time running-mate Michael Carty. [cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1957&cons=128 |title=General Election, 5 March 1957: Galway South by-election, 21 August 1953 |publisher=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-01-08]

He was then elected to the 9th Seanad Éireann by the Agricultural Panel, which re-elected him in 1961. However, he was defeated in the 1965 election to the 11th Seanad.

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