Hugh Law (Cumann na nGaedhael)

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Hugh Alexander Law (died 1st April 1943) was an Irish barrister and politician who represented constituencies in County Donegal as an MP in the British House of Commons and later as a TD in Dáil Éireann.

A barrister, Law was a descendant of his namesake Hugh Law (1818–1883), who had been Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1881–1883. He was elected as a Nationalist Member of Parliament for Donegal West in 1902, and was re-elected at successive general elections until he was replaced by Joseph Sweeney in the Sinn Féin landslide at the 1918 general election.[1].

At the 1923 Irish general election he was an unsuccessful Cumann na nGaedhael candidate for the 5th Dáil Éireann in the Donegal Dáil constituency. He stood again at the June 1927 general election and was elected to the 6th Dáil. Law was re-elected at the September 1927 general election, but lost his seat at the 1932 election, and did not stand again.

[edit] External links

• Hugh Law's electoral history (ElectionsIreland.org)

This page incorporates information from the Oireachtas Members Database