Edmund Sweetman

{{Short description|Irish politician (1912–1968)}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | office = [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]] | term_start = 21 April 1948 | term_end = 14 August 1951 | constituency = [[Nominated members of Seanad Éireann|Nominated by the Taoiseach]] | birth_date = {{birth date text|1912}} | birth_place = [[County Wicklow]], Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|12|16|1912|df=y}} | death_place = | party = [[Fine Gael]] | spouse = | children = | father = [[Roger Sweetman]] | alma_mater = | education = |}} '''Edmund Thomas Sweetman''' (1912 – 16 December 1968) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Fine Gael]] politician, who was a member of [[Seanad Éireann]] from 1948 to 1951.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Edmund-T-Sweetman.S.1950-06-16/|title=Edmund Sweetman|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref> A solicitor, he was an unsuccessful Fine Gael candidate for the [[Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Wicklow]] constituency at the [[1944 Irish general election|1944]] and [[1944 Irish general election|1948]] general elections.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2186|title=Edmund Sweetman |work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref> He was [[Nominated members of Seanad Éireann|nominated by the Taoiseach]] to the Seanad in 1948. He did not contest the 1951 Seanad election.<ref name=oireachtas_db/>

His father [[Roger Sweetman]] was a [[Sinn Féin]] [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for [[North Wexford|Wexford North]] from 1918 to 1921.<ref name="minchwedding">{{cite news |title=A Wicklow Wedding |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1930/0731/Pg009.html#Ar00900 |url-access=subscription |access-date=10 September 2020 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |date=27 September 1930 |page=9}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Families in the Oireachtas]]

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