What is Mary McAleese?
{{BLP unsourced|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Her Excellency]] |name = Mary McAleese |image = McAleese.jpg |caption = Mary McAleese in May 2011 |office = 8th [[President of Ireland]] |term_start = 11 November 1997 |term_end = 10 November 2011 |predecessor = [[Mary Robinson]] |successor = [[Michael D. Higgins]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|6|27|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] <small>(1997–2011)</small> |otherparty = [[Fianna Fáil]] <small>(Before 1997)</small> |spouse = [[Martin McAleese]] <small>(m. 1976)</small> |children = 3 |alma_mater = [[Queen's University Belfast]]<br>[[Trinity College, Dublin]] |signature = Mary McAleese Signature.svg }} '''Mary Patricia McAleese''' (born 27 June 1951) was the eighth [[President of Ireland|President]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]] from 1997 to 2011. She was first elected president in 1997 and was re-elected to another seven years from 2004 to 2011. She was ranked the 55th most powerful woman in the world on a list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes, despite the ceremonial nature of the presidency. She is the first President of Ireland to be born in [[Northern Ireland]]. She is also Ireland's second woman president, and the first in the world to succeed another woman. ==Related pages== * [[President of Ireland]] {{Presidents of Ireland}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Macaleese, Mary Patricia}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Fianna Fáil politicians]] [[Category:Politicians from Belfast]]