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Edmund Sweetman | |
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| Senator | |
| In office 21 April 1948 – 14 August 1951 | |
| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1912 County Wicklow, Ireland |
| Died | 16 December 1968 (aged 55–56) |
| Political party | Fine Gael |
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Edmund Thomas Sweetman (1912 – 16 December 1968) was an Irish Fine Gael politician, who was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1948 to 1951.[1] A solicitor, he was an unsuccessful Fine Gael candidate for the Wicklow constituency at the 1944 and 1948 general elections.[2] He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the Seanad in 1948. He did not contest the 1951 Seanad election.[1]
His father Roger Sweetman was a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for Wexford North from 1918 to 1921.[3]