Andrew Lavin

Andrew Lavin (c. 1891 – 26 March 1959) was an Irish politician and farmer.

Andrew Lavin
Teachta Dála
In office August 1923 – June 1927
Constituency	Roscommon
In office May 1921 – August 1923
Constituency	Leitrim–Roscommon North
Personal details
Born	1891
Political party	Sinn Féin Cumann na nGaedheal

Military intelligence file for Andrew Lavin

During the Irish War of Independence, Lavin was attached to North Roscommon Brigade, Irish Republican Army and took part in the destruction of an RIC barracks, attacks on British forces and the manufacture of munitions.^[1] He also claims to have been a member of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during 1919 and 1920.

He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) to the 2nd Dáil at the 1921 elections for the Leitrim–Roscommon North constituency.^[2] He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He was elected as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD at the 1922 general election.^[3] Joining the National Army in June 1922, he resigned from the Defence Forces in August 1923 while serving at the rank of Captain to stand as a Cumann na nGaedheal candidate in the Roscommon constituency at the 1923 general election. Lavin lost his seat at the June 1927 general election, and was also an unsuccessful candidate at the September 1927 general election.

Lavin, of 20 The Rise, Glasnevin, County Dublin, died aged 79 on 26 March 1959.