Records of Members of The Oireachtas - Shortest Lived Office-holders

Shortest Lived Office-holders

Aged 40 or younger at time of death:

Name Date of birth Date of death Age Cause of death
Kieran Doherty 16 October 1955 2 August 1981 25y Hunger strike
Liam Mellows 25 May 1895 8 December 1922 27y 6m Execution during the Irish Civil War
Michael Collins 16 October 1890 22 August 1922 31y 10m Shot during the Irish Civil War
Don Davern 4 March 1935 2 November 1968 33y 7m Sudden illness
Michael Derham 1889 20 November 1923 34y 10m- Sudden illness
Kevin O'Higgins 7 June 1892 10 July 1927 35y 1m Assassinated by former Civil War opponents
Billy Fox 3 January 1939 12 March 1974 35y 2m Shooting
Harry Boland 27 April 1887 31 July 1922 35y 3m Shot during the Irish Civil War
Frank Carney 25 April 1896 19 October 1932 36y 5m Ill-health
Hugh Colohan 30 September 1894 15 April 1931 36y 6m
Pierce McCan 2 August 1882 6 March 1919 36y 7m Influenza epidemic
Séamus Ryan 6 December 1895 30 June 1933 37y 6m
Thomas A. Finlay 11 October 1893 22 November 1932 39y 1m Illness - typhoid
Alfred P. Byrne 1913 26 July 1952 39y 6m-
Sir Osmond Esmonde 4 April 1896 22 July 1936 40y 3m Sudden
Clement Coughlan 14 August 1942 1 February 1983 40y 5m Traffic accident
Séamus Dwyer c.1882 20 December 1922 40y 11m- Shot on his premises
Joseph Hannigan 1904 1944 40y 11m-

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