Valentine Jago | |
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Senator | |
In office 27 October 1977 – 8 October 1981 | |
Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Personal details | |
Born | 1913 Cork, Ireland |
Died | 2 November 1983 Cork, Ireland | (aged 69–70)
Political party | |
Richard Valentine Jago (1913 – 2 November 1983) [1] was a politician and businessman in Cork city in Ireland. He was Secretary of the Cork Methodist Association in 1940, [2] Lord Mayor of Cork from 1957 to 1958 when a member of the Cork Civic Party, [3] and chairman of the Cork Chamber of commerce from 1964 to 1965. [4]
After the Civic Party's dissolution in 1966 he joined Fianna Fáil and was nominated to the Seanad by the Taoiseach after the 1977 general election, [1] serving until 1981. He was an unsuccessful Fianna Fáil candidate at the November 1982 general election for the Cork South-Central constituency. [5]