James Tully

Politician

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Born Sep 18, 1915

Died May 20, 1992

James "Jim" Tully was a prominent Irish trade unionist, politician and Deputy Leader of the Irish Labour Party who served as a minister in a series of Fine Gael-Labour Irish coalition governments. A native of Carlanstown, near Kells in County Meath, Tully… Read More

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Anka Radakovich
Dated 2003 - 2004
Ann Coulter
Fling 1991 - 1992

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Video: It's Quite Heavy And Not Very Fast (So Far) But The Wooden Splinter Bike ... Road.Cc
Google News - Aug 19, 2011

The BBC is reporting this morning that the entirely wooden bike built by Michael Thompson from Norfolk and ridden by triathlete James Tully has set a new record for a wood bicycle of 11.25mph (18.1kph). The record was set at the Quibell Park Velodrome
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Before Taking On Albany, Raising 14 Children In 1960s Brooklyn
NYTimes - Aug 09, 2011

For one boisterous decade in the 1960s, the three-story brick house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on the corner of Second Street and Prospect Park West, was the vibrant epicenter of politics and family life for Hugh L. Carey. His 14 children watched Kennedys go in and out of the gold-carpeted parlor, played table tennis and pool in the basement, slept
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Former Ny Governor Hugh Carey Passes Away At 92 Ynn
Google News - Aug 08, 2011

He entrusted his friend and neighbor James Tully to run his campaign, and later appointed him State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance. "Oh yeah, he was the same guy [throughout his career],” said Tully, who lives in Albany
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Google News - Jul 08, 2011

"Our unemployment rate will be higher than the rest of Florida for the next couple of years—there's no doubt about that," said Mayor James Tully, who is trying to view it as an opportunity. He thinks that affordable housing, beautiful beaches and
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CHILDHOOD

1915 Birth Born in 1915.

THIRTIES

1954 39 Years Old A native of Carlanstown, near Kells in County Meath, Tully was educated in Carlanstown schools and in St. Patrick's Classical School in Navan. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath constituency at the 1954 general election.

FORTIES

1957 42 Years Old He lost his seat at the 1957 general election, but was re-elected at the 1961 general election and served until 1982.

FIFTIES

1973 58 Years Old When Labour entered into a coalition government with Fine Gael in 1973, he was appointed Minister for Local Government.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1977 62 Years Old While serving in that post he gained prominence for a massive increase in the building of public housing, and notoriety for an attempt to gerrymander Irish constituencies to ensure the re-election of the National Coalition at the 1977 general election. … Read More

1981 66 Years Old 1 More Event

Tully was appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Michael O'Leary in 1981, and Minister for Defence in the short-lived 1981–82 Fine Gael-Labour Party government.

1992 77 Years Old Died in 1992.

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