John Stack (politician)

John Stack (1845 – 5 March 1897) was an Irish nationalist politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for North Kerry from 1885 to 1892.[1]

At the 1885 general election, Stack was elected unopposed as Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the newly created North Kerry constituency; it was the only one of the four Kerry constituencies not be contested by a Conservative or Loyalist candidate.[2] He was returned unopposed in 1886,[3] and when the Irish Party split in 1891, he sided with the Anti-Parnellite majority, joining the Irish National Federation. Stack did not contest the 1892 general election, when the Anti-Parnellite Thomas Sexton won the seat with a large majority over a Parnellite candidate.[4]

  1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "K", part 1". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 132–133. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
  3. ^ Walker, op. cit. page 139
  4. ^ Walker, op. cit. page 146