Conor Alexander Maguire was an Irish

Ireland

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 politician, lawyer and judge

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. He was a founding member of the Legal and Economic Society in UCD in 1911; now known as the University College Dublin Law Society

University College Dublin Law Society

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. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

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 as a Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil

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 Teachta Dála

Teachta Dála

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 (TD) for the National University of Ireland

National University of Ireland (constituency)

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 constituency at the 1932 general election

Irish general election, 1932

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 and was re-elected at the 1933 general election

Irish general election, 1933

The Irish general election of 1933 was held on 24 January 1933. The newly elected members of the 8th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 8 February when the new President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed....

. He was appointed as Attorney General of the Irish Free State

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 in March 1932. In November 1936, he resigned as Attorney General and as a TD on his appointment as a High Court judge. In 1946, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Ireland

Chief Justice of Ireland

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, that is the president of the Supreme Court of Ireland, where he served until 1961.