Francis Edward Meehan (1864 – 22 December 1946) was an Irish
nationalist
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politician and
Member of Parliament
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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He was first elected as the Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the Leitrim North constituency at the North Leitrim by-election on 21 February 1908, and was again re-elected at the January 1910 and December 1910 general elections. He continued in the constituency until its abolition in 1918, and he was subsequently awarded a
member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...