In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President Mary McAleese.

* Mary Barra – Senior Vice President of Global Product Development

This relationship was further strengthened by a visit from the President of Ireland Mary McAleese between 14 and 16 June 2006 on her speech about the long standing relationship with Lesotho and shared history between both nations.

Mary Pickford giving President Herbert Hoover a ticket for a film industry benefit for the unemployed, 1931

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

* 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

However, it was Hillery's successor, seventh President Mary Robinson, who ultimately revolutionized the presidency.

* November 11 – Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.

** Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland

* January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison ( b. 1858 )

* November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.

** Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.

** Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick Harrison ( b. 1897 )

* April 30 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison ( d. 1948 )

Mary Todd Lincoln, for example, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was a laudanum addict, as was the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was famously interrupted in the middle of an opium-induced writing session of Kubla Khan by a " person from Porlock.

The Dublin games were also the first to have their own opening and closing ceremonies broadcast live, performed by President of Ireland Mary McAleese.

The opening ceremony of the 2003 Games has been described by President of Ireland Mary McAleese as " a time when Ireland was at its superb best ".

Forewords by: Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan and Njabulo Ndebele, Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town.

President Chinchilla, whose strong Catholic views have won her to be named officially as Preferred Daughter of the Virgin Mary has not publicly stated her position on the question of in vitro fertilisation.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

The colorful history of St. Mary ’ s athletics includes a stellar 1910 baseball team, which lost only to Ty Cobb ’ s Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game, and a stint by future President Eisenhower as coach of the 1916 football team.

* Other organizations: IEEE Student Branch, Inter-Fraternity Council, National Panhellenic Council, Lambda Chi Alpha, Chi Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Delta Zeta, Alpha Phi Omega, Omega Delta Phi, Kappa Delta Chi, Beta Sigma Phi, Delta Sigma Pi, Kappa Theta Chi, Residence Hall Assoc., Student Bar Assoc., Student Government Assoc., Cheerleaders, Code Blue Dance Team, Emerging Leaders, President ’ s Ambassadors, University Programming Council, Accounting Club, American Chemical Society of Students, Criminal Justice Student Assoc., Finance Club, Graduate International Relations Society, International Business Club, Psychology Club, Society of Physics, St. Mary ’ s Society of Mathematicians ( SM )^ 2, Student Educators Assoc.

In November, Chamberlain met 23 year-old Mary Endicott, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, at a reception in the British legation.

Between 1990 and 2010, both Robinson and her successor President McAleese ( 1997 – 2011 ) visited the Palace on numerous occasions, while senior royals-the Prince of Wales, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh all visited both Presidents of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin.

President McAleese, who is herself the first President of Ireland to have been born in Northern Ireland, continued on from President Robinson in this regard.

The project was launched by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in Lifford and involves the restoration of of canal and two locks to working order.

The Chancellor is former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and there are five Pro-Chancellors: Dr Patrick J Molloy, and Professors Dermot McAleese, John Scattergood, David Spearman and Petros Florides.

In tributes, President Mary McAleese said " He was involved in every facet of policy-making that paved the way to a new, modern Ireland.

Mary Patricia McAleese (; née Leneghan ; ; born 27 June 1951 ) served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011.

McAleese is the first President of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.

The first individual born in Northern Ireland to become President of Ireland, President McAleese was a regular visitor to Northern Ireland throughout her presidency, where she was on the whole warmly welcomed by both communities, confounding critics who had believed she would be a divisive figure.

In March 1998, President McAleese announced that she would officially celebrate the Twelfth of July as well as Saint Patrick's Day, recognising the day's importance among Ulster Protestants.

McAleese meets with President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in 2010.

McAleese in discussion with US President Barack Obama at Áras an Uachtaráin on 23 May 2011.

In March 2011, President McAleese invited Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to make a state visit to the Republic of Ireland.

In past media interviews, prior to the Queen's visit, President McAleese had stated on several occasions that the highlight of her presidency to date was the opening ceremony of the 2003 Special Olympics World Games which she describes as " a time when Ireland was at its superb best ".

An inspection of the Eastern Reserve Brigade Guard of Honour by President Mary McAleese on the 93rd anniversary of the Easter Rising on O ' Connell Street in Dublin

It was attended by President Mary McAleese, the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, members of the Oireachtas, many from the world of politics, industry and business.

He was honoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from all parties.

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