David Kent (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish politician
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1867
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: politician
Nationality: Irish Free State
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About David Kent (politician)
- David Rice Kent (also known as David Ceannt; 2 February 1867 — 16 November 1930) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was born on 2 February 1867 in Coole, Castlelyons, County Cork, to David Kent and Mary Rice.On 2 May 1916, David Kent, his mother Mrs Rice Kent and three brothers—Thomas, William and Richard—were involved in a gunfight with members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) during an arrest operation following the Easter Rising in Dublin.
- When the supply of ammunition being loaded by Mrs Rice Kent was at its end, Richard attempted to escape but was shot and died from his wounds within several days.
- Thomas was not charged with armed rebellion but with "wilful murder", executed by firing squad and buried in the Detention Barracks.
- David was transferred to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where he was sentenced to death, though later was reduced to penal servitude for life.
- Subsequently, he was moved to HM Prison Pentonville in England though released from there within the year.,.David Kent was elected unopposed as a Sinn FĂ©in MP for the Cork East constituency at the 1918 general election.
- In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Kent did not attend.
- He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East and North East constituency at the 1921 elections.
- He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, and he did not sit in the Dáil from this time onwards.
- He was elected as a Republican TD for Cork East constituency at the 1923 general election.
- He was elected as one of five Sinn FĂ©in TDs at the June 1927 general election.
- He did not contest the September 1927 general election.His brother William Kent was also a TD in the 1920s and 1930s. He died on 16 November 1930 at Bawnard, Castlelyons, County Cork.
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