Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.

Two former Fianna members made an attempt on his life 1n 1928, but Harling escaped and actually shot dead one of his attackers — Tim Coghlan.

Hillery, though not himself political, agreed under pressure from Clare's senior Fianna Fáil TD, party leader and former Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, to become his running mate at the 1951 general election.

In 1997, McAleese defeated former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in an internal party election held to determine the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Irish presidency.

Raphael Patrick " Ray " Burke ( born 30 September 1943 ) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.

However O ' Kelly was not made Governor-General, the post instead going to the former Fianna Fáil TD, Domhnall Ua Buachalla from County Kildare, who would be the last Governor-General.

The party was founded in 1985 by Desmond O ' Malley, a former senior minister in Fianna Fáil governments under Jack Lynch and Charles Haughey.

O ' Malley joined with Fianna Fáil members Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy and Pearse Wyse, Fine Gael TD Michael Keating and former Fine Gael activist Michael McDowell, to set up the new party.

After negotiations between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, a Fine Gael suggestion for the post endorsed by Fianna Fáil, former independent Senator and founder of the Gaelic League, Douglas Hyde was nominated.

Instead Fianna Fáil proposed Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, a former Chief Justice and an Attorney-General under Éamon de Valera.

Fianna Fáil leader Jack Lynch proposed as the party's presidential election candidate Patrick Hillery, retiring European Commissioner for Social Affairs and former Minister for External Affairs.

The Fianna Fáil party supported its former candidate, Mary McAleese, in her bid for a second term.

The outcome was the first ever coalition government for Fianna Fáil, whose junior partner were the Progressive Democrats led by former Fianna Fáil TD Desmond O ' Malley.

But as evidence of Bruton's complexity, he also kept a picture of former Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Seán Lemass, which had been hung there by Reynolds, and which Bruton kept because he viewed Lemass as the best and most reforming Taoiseach in the history of the state.

Among the TDs elected were O ' Malley and his cousin Patrick O ' Malley ; Anne Colley, daughter of George Colley, Martin Gibbons, son of the former Fianna Fáil Minister ; and Martin Cullen.

His father was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former adjutant in the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1944 as a Fianna Fáil candidate.

Michael O ' Kennedy ( born 21 February 1936 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a range of cabinet positions, most notably as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Finance and Irish European Commissioner.

This time he faced former Fianna Fáil Tánaiste and minister, Erskine H. Childers.

Mary O ' Rourke ( née Lenihan ; born 31 May 1937 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

David Andrews ( born 15 March 1936 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician and barrister.

He is the son of May and Bernard Cowen, a former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator.

Michael Woods ( born 8 December 1935 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide range of cabinet positions, most notably as Minister for Agriculture and Food, Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Health.

Flynn's daughter Beverley Flynn is a former Fianna Fáil TD for the Mayo constituency.

This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that " there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were rightwing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government.

The cabinet included among the eight civilians, one of them being Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Karachi University lecturer.

The leading candidates for the office — all of whom were black — were Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, assembly member, and cabinet minister under Vincent ; Félix d ' Orléans Juste Constant, leader of the Haitian Communist Party ( Parti Communiste d ' Haïti — PCH ); and former Garde commander Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte, who stood as the candidate of a progressive coalition that included the Worker Peasant Movement ( Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan — MOP ).

The elections of March 1991 kept the former Communists in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a coalition cabinet that included non-Communists.

* Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

In July 2001, the center-left New Union party forged an alliance with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and formed a new cabinet under former president Algirdas Brazauskas.

Although Kinnock had come from the Tribune left of the party, he parted company with many of his former allies after his appointment to the shadow cabinet.

On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials including Brigadier David Lansana, former cabinet minister Mohamed Sorie Forna, Brigadier General Ibrahim Bash Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after being convicted for allegedly attempting a coup to topple president Stevens ' government.

The audience, according to one report, " included many members of the great and good, former cabinet ministers and privy councillors, as well as actors, writers, academics, and enthuasists ".

** Four former cabinet ministers are executed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu Sese Seko.

After all, who in 1964 had ever heard of a former Conservative cabinet minister thinking that immigration was an important political issue?

He was offered a life peerage, which was regarded as his right as a former cabinet minister but declined it.

Andrew Johnson was nominated over three other War Democrats: former New York Senator Daniel S. Dickinson, Buchanan cabinet member Joseph Holt, and General Benjamin F. Butler.

* Tony Benn, former British Labour MP, chairman and cabinet minister

On 1 February 1945 the prince regent Kyril, and the two other former regents-Professor Bogdan Filov and General Nikola Mihov, as well as a range of former cabinet ministers, royal advisors and 67 MPs were executed.

In 1971, they were kept out of cabinet, and the party of former PvdA members, DS70, became a partner of the First Biesheuvel cabinet.

Instead, the PvdA was kept out of government by the formation of cabinet of the CDA, the VVD, and D66, the latter being former allies of PvdA.

They asked Ali Maher, a former prime minister, to accept being reappointed to his previous position, and to form an all-civilian cabinet.

The new cabinet included Margaret Thatcher ( Education and Science ), William Whitelaw ( Leader of the House of Commons ) and the former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ).

In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala, a former member of the Clinton cabinet.

Dole is married to former U. S. cabinet member and former U. S. Senator Elizabeth Hanford Dole of North Carolina.