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5 unusual facts about Joseph Brennan


Joseph Brennan

Joseph Charles Brennan (1836–1872), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

Joseph E. Brennan (born 1934), U.S. politician, former Governor of Maine

Kilbrogan House

In addition, Mr. Brennan’s son, Joseph Brennan was an Irish Civil Servant who became Secretary of the Department of Finance, Chairman of the Currency Commission from 1927 until 1943 and was governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 1943 to 1953.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1974

He had bested Joseph Brennan in the Democratic primary, and had the backing of popular former Governor, and then Maine Senator Edmund Muskie.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1986

Incumbent Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan was term limited and unable to seek re-election.


James Fintan Lalor

“His spirit, however, was undaunted,” according to O’Sullivan, and in the following year he set about organising a revival of the insurrection” in co-operation with John Savage, Joseph Brennan, John O'Leary and Thomas Clarke Luby in Tipperary and Waterford.


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