Seán Goulding (1877 – 15 December 1959) was an Irish

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politician. A company director, he was a

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(TD) from 1927 to 1937, then a senator from 1938 to 1954, serving as

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from 1943 to 1948. From County Waterford, Goulding was elected at the September 1927 general election to the

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as a TD for the

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constituency. He was re-elected at two further general elections until his defeat at the 1937 election to the

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. He stood again at the 1938,

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and 1944 general elections, but never returned to the Dáil. After the loss of his Dáil seat in 1937, he stood in the subsequent elections to the 5th Seanad Éireann, winning a seat on the

Industrial and Commercial Panel The Industrial and Commercial Panel ( ga, An Rolla Tionscail Agus Tráchtála) is one of five vocational panels which together elect 43 of the 60 members of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). The In ...

. He was re-elected in 1943, and in 1944 was returned on the

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, serving as

of the Seanad from 1948 to 1951. In 1951, he was nominated by the Taoiseach,

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, to the 7th Seanad, and elected as

Leas-Chathaoirleach Cathaoirleach (; Irish for chairperson; plural: ) is the title of the chair (or presiding officer) of Seanad Éireann, the sixty-member upper house of the Oireachtas, the legislature of Ireland. The current Cathaoirleach, who has held the offi ...

(deputy chair) on 2 June 1948. He did not contest the 1954 Seanad election. He died on 15 December 1959, aged 82.

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