About Thomas MacPartlin
Lived 1879 – 1923 (aged 43–44). Thomas MacPartlin was an Irish politician and trade unionist.
Thomas MacPartlin (22 August 1879 – 20 October 1923) was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1923.
A trade union official from County Sligo, he was a member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners union and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) in 1917. He was a signatory of the 1914 ITUC manifesto opposing inclusion of a partition option in the draft home rule bill and asserting workers' right to arm and fight for 'economic freedom'.
He died in office in October 1923, while on a visit to Geneva. The by-election to fill the vacancy was held on 28 November 1923, and was won by Thomas Foran of the Labour Party.
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Who was Thomas MacPartlin?
Irish trade union official and politician
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Thomas MacPartlin was born in 1879.
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Thomas MacPartlin died on 20 October 1923.
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Thomas MacPartlin was a politician and trade unionist.
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Thomas MacPartlin was Irish.
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