Lionel Booth (politician)

{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1914–1997)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lionel Booth

| nationality = Irish

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = March 1957

| term_end = June 1969

| constituency = Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown

| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|6|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|5|31|1914|6|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Dublin, Ireland

| party = Fianna Fáil

| spouse = Muriel Booth

| children = 3

| education = Wesley College, Dublin

| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin

|}}

Lionel O. Booth (12 June 1914 – 31 May 1997) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and businessman. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for twelve years, from 1957 to 1969.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Lionel-Booth.D.1957-03-20/|title=Lionel Booth|publisher=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=3 October 2008}}

He was educated at Wesley College, Dublin, The Leys School, Cambridge, and Trinity College Dublin.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/former-ff-td-dies-at-age-of-82-1.78447|title=Former FF TD dies at age of 82|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=3 June 1997}} He qualified as a solicitor in 1938 and served as a captain in the Army during the Emergency.

He first entered politics in the 1950s serving on both Dublin County Council and Dún Laoghaire Corporation. He stood unsuccessfully at the 1954 general election, and was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1957 general election for the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituency. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election, but did not contest the 1969 general election and retired from politics.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2501|title=Lionel Booth|publisher=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=3 October 2008}}

Booth is probably best be remembered as an astute businessman. He was both the joint managing director of Booth Poole & Co Ltd from 1956 and managing director of the Brittain Group from 1970.