{{about||the politician in Nevada, USA|Joseph M. Foley|the politician in Manitoba, Canada|Joseph P. Foley}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph William Foley | image = | caption = | image_size = | order = | birth_date = c. 1821 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | office2 = Member of Parliament<br />for New Ross | predecessor2 = Charles George Tottenham | successor2 = John Redmond | term_start2 = 1880 | term_end2 = 1881 | party = | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | profession = }} '''Joseph William Foley''' JP (born c. 1821) was an Irish solicitor from Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin who briefly became a nationalist politician.
His father William was from New Ross in County Wexford, and his mother Elizabeth Crawford was from Northumberland. He was educated at St Cuthbert's College in County Durham, and became a solicitor in 1841.<ref name="times-1880-04-13">{{cite web | url = http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=lancs&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS168869517&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 | title = The New Members Of Parliament | newspaper=The Times | location = London | date = 13 April 1880 | page = 10 | issue = 29854 | accessdate = 25 May 2014 }}</ref> He was also a justice of the peace for County Dublin.<ref name="times-1880-04-13" /> In 1865 he married Julia Cram, from Crofthouse in Northumberland.<ref name="times-1880-04-14">{{cite web | url = http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=lancs&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS202161806&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 | title = The New Members Of Parliament | newspaper=The Times | location = London | date = 14 April 1880 | page = 12 | issue = 29855 | accessdate = 25 May 2014 }}</ref>
Foley was elected at the 1880 general election as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament (MP) for New Ross, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Charles George Tottenham.<ref name="walker">{{cite book |year=1978 |editor1-last=Walker |editor1-first=Brian M. |title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922 |series=A New History of Ireland |location=Dublin |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |publication-date= |page=307 |isbn=0901714127 |issn=0332-0286 }}</ref>
However, he resigned his seat in January 1881 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.<ref name="gazette-1881-02-04">{{London Gazette | issue = 24932 | date = 4 February 1881 |page=501 }}</ref> The resulting by-election for his seat was won by the Home Rule candidate John Redmond,<ref name="walker" /><ref name="gazette-1881-02-04" /> who later became leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
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