John Joseph Ryan was an Irish Labour Party politician from Nenagh, County Tipperary. He was first elected to D�il �ireann at the 1973 general election as a Teachta D�la for the Tipperary North constituency. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he lost his seat at the 1987 general election. He was elected to the Industrial and Commercial Panel of the 19th Seanad in 1989. At the 1992 general election he re-gained his D�il seat in Tipperary North. He retired at the 1997 general election. He served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle of the D�il from 1982 to 1987. He died in 2014 at the age of 86. [More at Wikipedia]

June 17th, 1927 in (Age 97)