Patrick McMahon (MP)


Patrick McMahon was an Irish Liberal, Independent Irish Party, and Radical politician.
McMahon was first elected as one of the two Members of Parliament for County Wexford as a Radical at the 1852 general election but shortly after joined the Independent Irish Party when it formed later that year. He held the seat until 1865, being re-elected as an Independent Irish Party candidate in 1857, and then as a Liberal Party candidate, upon its creation, in 1859.
He was later elected MP as a Liberal candidate for New Ross in the 1868 general election and held the seat until 1874 when he stood down.