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John Hennigan (politician)

Irish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6238680 ↗
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John Hennigan was an Irish politician and farmer.

He was a member of Sligo County Council from 1920 to 1942.

He was an unsuccessful independent candidate in Sligo–Mayo East at the 1922 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála (TD) for Leitrim–Sligo at the 1923 general election. He was re-elected at each subsequent election until he lost his seat at the 1933 general election.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “John Hennigan (politician)” as irish politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1942, 1922, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where John, Hennigan and politician can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6238680. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1942, 1922 and 1923.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Hennigan (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.