Thomas Hennessy was an Irish

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politician and medical practitioner. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at a by-election on 11 March 1925 for the Dublin South constituency, after the resignation of the Cumann na nGaedheal

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(TD) Daniel McCarthy. He did not contest the June 1927 general election, but after the death of the

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TD for Dublin South,

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, he stood as a candidate in the by-election on 24 August 1927. He won the election, becoming the first – and only – candidate to win more than one by-election to the Dáil. The

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lasted only 98 days in total, and last sat on 16 August 1927, before adjourning until October. However, it did not meet again; a second general election was held in September, and Hennessy was returned to the

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. He was re-elected again at the 1932 general election, but was defeated at the 1933 general election, and retired from politics.

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