Hugh Gibbons
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Hugh Gibbons | |
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.jpg) Gibbons in 2002 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office June 1969 – June 1977 | |
| Constituency | Roscommon–Leitrim |
| In office April 1965 – June 1969 | |
| Constituency | Roscommon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 July 1916 Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland |
| Died | 14 November 2007 (aged 91) County Roscommon, Ireland |
| Party | Fianna Fáil |
| Spouse |
Josephine Lee (m. 1949) |
| Children | 6, including Brian |
| Education | Summerhill College |
| Alma mater | University College Galway |
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Hugh Gibbons (6 July 1916 – 14 November 2007) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who sat in Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for twelve years, from 1965 to 1977.
He was born 6 July 1916 in Ballybeg, Strokestown, County Roscommon, the fourth child of Luke Gibbons and his wife Ellen (née Egan). His parents married in 1910 and his father was a publican and merchant. Hugh Gibbons was educated in Carniska national school, Strokestown, and in 1929 won a scholarship to attend secondary school at Summerhill College, Sligo. In 1934 he won a scholarship to University College Galway and passed his final medical exams in December 1940.[1]
Politics
A medical doctor before entering politics, Gibbons was not elected on his first attempt, when he stood as the Fianna Fáil candidate at the 1964 Roscommon by-election.[2] He was elected for the Roscommon constituency at the 1965 general election.[3] After constituency changes, he was re-elected at the 1969 general election in the new Roscommon–Leitrim constituency. He was returned to the Dáil again at the 1973 general election, but did not contest the 1977 general election and retired from politics.[2]