Hugh Alexander Law (died 1 April 1943) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician who represented constituencies in County Donegal as an Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later as a Teachta Dála (TD) in Dáil Éireann. A barrister, Law was a descendant of his namesake Hugh Law (1818–1883), who had been Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1881–1883. He was elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP.

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  • Hugh Alexander Law (died 1 April 1943) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician who represented constituencies in County Donegal as an Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later as a Teachta Dála (TD) in Dáil Éireann. A barrister, Law was a descendant of his namesake Hugh Law (1818–1883), who had been Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1881–1883. He was elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP. for Donegal West in 1902, and was re-elected at successive general elections until he was replaced by Joseph Sweeney in the Sinn Féin landslide at the 1918 general election. At the 1923 Irish general election he was an unsuccessful Farmers' Party candidate for the 5th Dáil Éireann in the Donegal Dáil constituency. He stood again as a Cumann na nGaedhael candidate at the June 1927 general election and was elected to the 6th Dáil. Law was re-elected at the September 1927 general election, but lost his seat at the 1932 general election, and did not stand again.
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  • Hugh Alexander Law (died 1 April 1943) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician who represented constituencies in County Donegal as an Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later as a Teachta Dála (TD) in Dáil Éireann. A barrister, Law was a descendant of his namesake Hugh Law (1818–1883), who had been Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1881–1883. He was elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP.
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  • Hugh Law (Cumann na nGaedhael)
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