- Pat Codd
Patrick "Pat" Codd (died April 2006)cite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2006/0412/1142365534248.html |title=In Short: Kenny tribute to the late Pat Codd |date=
12 April 2006 |work=The Irish Times |accessdate=2008-02-21] was aFine Gael politician fromEnniscorthy ,County Wexford in Ireland. He was a senator from 1975 to 1977.cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?MemberFirstName=&MemberName=codd&restr=0&disp=src&housetype=&HouseNum=&ConstID= |title=Mr. Patrick Codd |work=Oireachtas Members Database |accessdate=2008-02-21]Codd was elected to the
13th Seanad on theAgricultural Panel at a by-election on23 April 1975 following the deaths ofBob Aylward andCornelius O'Callaghan . He stood unsuccessfully in the Wexford constituency at the 1977 general electioncite web |url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3226 |title=Patrick (Pat) Codd |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-21] and did not contest the subsequent elections to the14th Seanad . He later sought a Fine Gael nomination for the 1982 general election, but at the selection conference he was beaten byIvan Yates , a then little-known 20-year-old member ofEnniscorthy Urban District Council .Tributes to Pat Codd: cite web |url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0183/S.0183.200605160003.html |title=Official Report (Seanad Éireann), Volume 183, 16 May 2006: Deaths of Former Members, Expressions of Sympathy |work=ElectionsIreland.org |accessdate=2008-02-21]At the 1979 local elections he was elected as a member of
Wexford County Council , serving until the 1985 local elections. He was chairman of the county council from 1984 to 1985, while his son-in-law Martin Dunbar was a Labour Party member of the council.In later years he was the organiser of the Self-Help Ireland charity in the south-east region, and raised large sums of money for the organisation.
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Elected to Seanad at a by-election on
23 April 1975
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