James Kelly (Fianna Fáil politician)

{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician}}

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = July 1937

| term_end = June 1943

| constituency = Meath–Westmeath

| term_start1 = February 1932

| term_end1 = July 1937

| constituency1 = Meath

| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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| birth_place = County Meath, Ireland

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James Patrick Kelly was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for eleven years as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1932 to 1943.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/James-Patrick-Kelly.D.1932-03-09/|title=James Kelly|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=2 July 2012}}

An accountant by profession, Kelly first stood as a candidate for Dáil Éireann at the June 1927 general election for the Meath constituency, but was not successful. He was defeated again at the September 1927 general election, but was elected at the 1932 general election, taking his seat in the 7th Dáil. He was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1933 general election, and for the new Meath–Westmeath constituency at the 1937 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1646|title=James Kelly|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=2 July 2012}}

He was returned again at the 1938 general election, but lost his seat at the 1943 general election. He stood again the following year at the 1944 general election, but was not successful.