Edward Cotter
He unsuccessfully contested the Cork West constituency June 1949 by-election caused by the death of Timothy J . Murphy but was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Cork West constituency at the 1954 general election . 
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