Frank Aiken (Camlough, February 13, 1898 - Dublin, May 18, 1983) was one of the leaders of the Irish Republican Army, co-founder of the political party Fianna Fáil and a later Irish politician.

After completing secondary education in Newry, Aiken joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914. A few years later, he was elected president in Sinn Fein. During the Irish War of Independence, he led one of the IRA divisions, which committed several major attacks. In 1923 he was first elected as a member of Dáil Éireann, after which Aiken was re-elected to his retirement in 1973 at each new election. He is thus one of the longest-serving Fianna Fáil members. Aiken was successively Minister of Defense (1932-1939), Minister for "Coordination of Defense Measures" (1939-1945), Minister of Finance (1945-1948) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1951-1954 & 1957-1969). From 1965 to 1969 Aiken was also Tánaiste. His greatest political role was Aiken, immediately after the war, as Irish Minister of Finance in the European Union and the Council of Europe until he had to resign in 1941 with the election defeat of Fianna Fáil. In 1973, despite the insistence of the deputy president, Éamon de Valera, Aiken decided not to participate in the Irish presidential elections. In Aikens, Erskine Hamilton Childers set himself on behalf of Fianna Fáil and won.

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