She outperformed presidential candidate Barack Obama, a native of Honolulu, by three points.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

She easily won her party's nomination, and eventually got 40 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, and 51. 6 % in the second, thus defeating the Centre Party's Esko Aho and becoming the 11th president of Finland.

She joined the presidential campaign of close friend Robert F. Kennedy, and heard the shots when he was assassinated on June 5, 1968.

She was later granted a presidential pardon by President Bill Clinton in his last official act before leaving office.

She supported Al Gore's 2000 US presidential bid, and also endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the presidency in 2008.

She further announced that after she received the certified returns of the overseas absentee ballots from each county, she would certify the results of the presidential election on Sunday, November 26, 2000.

She was eventually invited to organize a fund-raising dinner for the 1972 presidential campaign of U. S. Senator Ed Muskie of Maine.

She appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years ( 2002 – 2006 ) in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.

She has been a model, was the mayor of Chacao ( a municipality of Caracas ), Governor of the state of Nueva Esparta and a former presidential candidate.

She entered politics in 1997, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as the MEP for Connacht – Ulster.

She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

She was elected to a full six-year presidential term in the controversial May 2004 Philippine elections, and was sworn in on June 30, 2004.

She is married to former U. S. Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.

She later resigned from the FTC in 1979 to campaign for her husband's 1980 presidential run.

She supported John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004.

She became active in politics as a Democrat in the 1970s, and was involved in the later campaigns of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey.

She is also the first woman to have presided over a U. S. presidential inauguration.

She ran for re-election in the 2004 presidential election but was defeated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

She sought a rematch 2009 presidential election, losing again to Yudhoyono.

She spoke at the 2004 Democratic Convention after some initially considered her to be a possible running mate for presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election but Kerry selected Sen. John Edwards instead.

She was active in support of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential campaign.

She was inaugurated in January 1967, but on May 7, 1968, she died in office of cancer at the age of forty-one, amid her husband's ongoing second presidential campaign.

She was actively involved in her husband's presidential campaign in 2000, making numerous campaign stops nationwide such as at Chicago's Taste of Polonia over Labor Day Weekend where she appeared along with Hadassah Lieberman.

She met her husband, Todd Purdum, the national editor for Vanity Fair and a former White House correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief for the New York Times, during the 1992 presidential campaign.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

She formally endorsed Senator John McCain, then the presumptive Republican party nominee, for president on March 25.

She faced Republican nominee and sitting governor George Voinovich in the general election, which Voinovich won.

She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards.

She was a nominee for the latter again in 2003 and was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the CFDA in 2004.

She came third with 13. 8 % of the first-preference vote, ahead of the Labour Party candidate, but well behind Fine Gael and the victorious Fianna Fáil nominee, Mary McAleese.

* She was also nominated to the National Academy of Dance, Drama, Music and Films, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, as a nominee of the Central Government.

She was a nominee in the 2003 Turner Prize.

She has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award: for the TV movie The Song Spinner ( 1995, Daytime Emmy Award nominee ), and for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series on Frasier in 1998.

Kaczmarek underwent a hip replacement in April 2004, due to chronic arthritis She recovered quickly, and used an X-ray of her new hip for her Emmy campaign the following summer, advertising herself as " the only Emmy nominee with an artificial hip ( except for Anthony LaPaglia )".

She announced her intentions to run for President of Taiwan on March 6, 2007, but withdrew in order to support DPP presidential nominee, Frank Hsieh.

She is currently the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, vying for an open seat vacated by retiring U. S. Senator Daniel Akaka.

She is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee.

She is the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president.

She eventually ran as the Green Party nominee in the 2008 presidential election receiving 0. 12 % of the votes cast.

She was married to John Edwards, the former U. S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee.

She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl.

She sometimes was mentioned as a possible nominee for Secretary of Defense in a Kerry administration.

She was discussed as a potential vice presidential choice for the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama.

She is a two time Academy Award nominated screenwriter and also the mother of Oscar nominee Jeannie Berlin.

She offered to send an expeditionary force of 6, 350 foot and 1, 000 horse, the cost to be shared by the States-General, provided her nominee, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, would be put in both military and political charge of the country as governor-general.

She criticized Democrats during the 2008 general election campaign, particularly presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and Minnesota U. S. senatorial candidate ( and fellow SNL alumnus ) Al Franken.

She left WWE in 2009 to run unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut, losing to Democratic Party nominee Richard Blumenthal in the general election.