Charles McGleenan (1895 – 1974[1]) was a farmer, Irish republican volunteer and political candidate.
[2] At the 1935 United Kingdom general election, McGleenan stood in Armagh as an Independent Republican, winning 32.4% of the vote.
[2] In May 1950, the APL conference voted down a motion calling for abstentionism from the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
McGleenan had been a supporter of the motion, and when a local convention selected him as their candidate for the South Armagh by-election in 1950, this was in clear opposition to party policy.
[5] McGleenan did not take his seat,[2] but did join with the Nationalist Party MPs Cahir Healy, Joe Connellan and Edward McCullagh in lobbying for admission to the Dáil, as elected representatives of territory it claimed.