Dillon
JOHN, an Irish politician; son of John Blake Dillon (1816-1866), Young Ireland party, and member of the who was a prominent member of the JOHN DILLON British Parliament for County Tipperary in 1865-1866; born in New York, in 1851; was educated at the Catholic University of Dublin, after which he became a doctor. He early identified himself with the of Dublin, after which he became a docelected to Parliament for County Tiplon Parnellite movement, and in 1880 was violence of his language, while speeches delivered by him in Ireland led to his soon became prominent for the imprisonment in 1881. 1881-1882, and 1888. From 1883 to 1885 he was absent imprisonment in 1881. 1881-1882, and DIMENSION from political life on account of illhealth; but in the latter year he reappeared, and was elected for East Mayo. He was one of the most prominent promoters of the "Plan of Campaign." In 1896 he succeeded Justin McCarthy as chairman of the main section of the Nationalist party. In 1901 he accepted the leadership of John Redmond in the reconstituted nationalist party, and worked actively as his lieutenant.