- John Blennerhassett
John Blennerhassett (born 1930) is a former Irish
Fine Gael party politician fromCounty 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 the13th Seanad . He was re-elected in 1977 to the14th Seanad and in 1981 to the15th Seanad , but the party did not nominate him for the 1982 Seanad election. He blamed the Fine leaderGarret 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]References
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