John Blennerhassett

John Blennerhassett

John Blennerhassett (born 1930) is a former Irish Fine Gael party politician from County Kerry.cite web |url=http://oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=15&MemberID=1144&ConstID=206 |title=Mr. John Blennerhassett |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-02-08]

A farm owner and former drapery buyer, he stood unsuccessfully as a Fine Gael candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Kerry North constituency at the 1969, 1973, and 1977 general elections.cite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2917 |title=John Blennerhassett |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-08]

Blennerhassett did not stand for the Dáil again, but after his 1973 defeat he was nominated by the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave to the 13th Seanad. He was re-elected in 1977 to the 14th Seanad and in 1981 to the 15th Seanad, but the party did not nominate him for the 1982 Seanad election. He blamed the Fine leader Garret FitzGerald, and resigned from the partycite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1982/0406/Pg004.html |title=FG senator to resign |date=6 April 1982 |page=4 |accessdate=2008-02-08]

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