{{Short description|Irish politician (1902–1970)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Patrick Crotty, 1954.jpg | caption = Crotty in 1954 | office = Parliamentary Secretary | suboffice = Industry and Commerce | subterm = 1954–1957 | office1 = Teachta Dála | term_start1 = February 1948 | term_end1 = June 1969 | constituency1 = Carlow–Kilkenny | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|11|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Waterford, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|11|26|1902|11|23|df=y}} | death_place = Piltown, County Kilkenny, Ireland | party = Fine Gael | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Crotty|1922}} | children = 10, including Kieran and Mick | alma_mater = University College Cork |}} '''Patrick Joseph Crotty''' (23 November 1902 – 26 November 1970) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency from 1948 to 1969.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Patrick-J-Crotty.D.1948-02-18/|title=Patrick Crotty|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref>
He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election, and re-elected five times, at the 1951, 1954, 1957, 1961 and 1965 general elections.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2192|title=Patrick Crotty|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref> He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1954 to 1957.
Crotty did not contest the 1969 general election, but his son Kieran Crotty was elected for the same constituency at that election.
==See also== *Families in the Oireachtas
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-new|office}} {{s-ttl|title = Parliamentary Secretary to the<br/>Minister for Industry and Commerce |years = 1954–1957}} {{s-aft|after = Gerald Bartley}} {{s-end}} {{Carlow–Kilkenny (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
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