John Patrick Hayden
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John Patrick Hayden MP |
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| Member of Parliament for South Roscommon |
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In office 15 July 1897 – 25 November 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Luke Patrick Hayden (Parnellite) |
| Succeeded by | Harry Boland (Sinn Féin) |
| Majority | Elected unopposed |
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25 April 1863 County Roscommon |
| Died | 3 July 1954 (aged 91) |
| Citizenship | British, then Irish |
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| Spouse(s) | Henrietta Hill (m. 1912) |
| Relations | Luke Patrick Hayden, MP (brother) |
| Profession | Editor and proprietor, Westmeath Examiner |
John Patrick Hayden (25 April 1863 – 3 July 1954) was an Irish nationalist politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he served in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1897 to 1918 as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Roscommon. He was also editor and proprietor of the Westmeath Examiner, published in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and a member of the Irish Board of Agriculture. He was imprisoned four times by the British administration under different Coercion Acts.
He was the seventh son of Luke and Mary Hayden of County Roscommon, and was educated at St Comans, Roscommon. In 1912 he married Henrietta Hill, daughter of Thomas Scott of Hannaville, Greenisland, Co. Antrim.
Hayden founded the Westmeath Examiner in 1882, when he was not yet 20. In his early days he also made valuable contributions to Irish literature. He was an active campaigner during the Land War and Plan of Campaign of the 1880s. Like his older brother Luke Hayden, MP for South Leitrim and later for South Roscommon, John Hayden supported Charles Stewart Parnell during the split in the Irish nationalist movement from 1890 over Parnell’s leadership. As a result, the Westmeath Examiner was subjected to a clerically organized boycott, and only survived commercially through a pact between Unionists and Parnellites on the Mullingar Board of Guardians, dividing advertising between pro-Parnellite and Unionist papers and excluding the clericalist Westmeath Independent.
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