John O'Connor (Lord Mayor of Dublin)

John O'Connor (c. 1835 – 12 January 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who was elected in 1885 as Lord Mayor of Dublin and also as a Member of Parliament (MP) for South Kerry.

O'Connor was the son of a farmer at Staplestown, County Kildare, and owned several public houses. He married the daughter of a pawnbroker, a Mr White. He was an alderman of Dublin Corporation and Lord Mayor in 1885.

At the general election in December 1885 he won the newly created South Kerry constituency for the Irish Parliamentary Party by more than 20 to 1 over the "Loyalist" candidate, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. O'Connor was re-elected unopposed in 1886,^[1] but resigned his seat in September 1887.^[2]

References

1. The Times, 1 December 1885, states that O’Connor unsuccessfully contested Co. Kildare in 1880, but this is contradicted by Walker (ed.) (1978).
2. Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2009.

Sources

• The Times (London), 1 December 1885
• Brian M. Walker (ed.), Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1978

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John O'Connor

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for South Kerry 1885 – 1887	Succeeded by Denis Kilbride
Civic offices
Preceded by William Meagher	Lord Mayor of Dublin 1885–1886	Succeeded by Timothy Daniel Sullivan