List of Presidents of Finntaire
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President of Finntaire
No. |
Portrait | Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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11 | 100px | Tadhg Mac Murchadha (1852-1937) |
Conservative Party | 1897 | 1907 | |
12 | 100px | Fintan Stack (1852-1937) |
Liberal Party | 1907 | 1912 | |
13 | Edward Kinnear (1852-1937) |
Liberal Party | 1912 | 1917 | ||
14 | Frederick Sparkman (1873-1935) |
Conservative Party | 1917 | 1922 | ||
15 | Shay Tremblay (1873-1945) |
Democratic Party | 1922 | 1926 (Impeached) | Widely believed to have been backed by the mafia in his presidential run, President Tremblay's links to organised crime were eventually exposed in several bribery scandals that rocked the country, leading to his impeachment in 1926 and the installation of Robert "Corky" Carlan as President. | |
16 | Robert "Corky" Carlan (1882-1966) |
Democratic Party | 1926 | 1932 | Attempting to salvage the party's image, President Carlan dismissed officials believed to be connected to organised crime. Carlan successfully ensured Tremblay's bad reputation did not stick, allowing the Democratic Party to narrowly win the 1927 election. His second term was marked with crackdowns on organised crime and periods of gang violence such as 1929's Bloody Spring. Despite the success of "Carlan's Crusade" he narrowly lost the 1932 election to Oscar Fairfull. The Democratic Party would disintegrate in 1936 after Carlan's retirement, with most of its members joining the Liberal Party. | |
17 | Oscar Fairfull (1866-1941) |
Conservative Party | 1932 | 1937 | ||
18 | Einrí Ó Leannáin Sr. (1888-1970) |
Conservative Party | 1937 | 1942 | First member of the Ó Leannáin family to become President. The son of businessman and Senator L.E Ó Leannáin, Einrí Ó Leannáin Sr. ran for President in 1937 after Oscar Fairfull refused to rerun. Focusing on economic policies in his presidency, Einrí Ó Leannáin was unpopular due to his demagoguery, indecisiveness, and his aggressive foreign policy. It was partly due to President Einrí Ó Leannáin's reputation that his son Micheál Ó Leannáin decided to run for President to redeem the family name. | |
19 | Harold Cornelius Bray (1880-1946) |
Progressive Party | 1942 | 1946 (Died in Office) | First member of the Progressive Party to become President of Finntaire. | |
20 | William Wilde (1902-1983) |
Progressive Party | 1946 | 1947 | Vice-President William Wilde ascended to the office of President in the wake of the death of Harold Cornelius Bray in 1944. | |
21 | Elwin Byrne (1878-1952) |
Conservative Party | 1947 | 1952 (Died in Office) | ||
22 | Domnall Ó Maol Bhréanáin (1893-1983) |
Conservative Party | 1952 | 1952 | One of the shortest-reigning heads of state of Finntaire, Vice-President Domnall Ó Maol Bhréanáin became President for three months between the death of President Elwin Byrne and the 1952 election. Ó Maol Bhréanáin was sidelined in the 1952 nomination in favour of Raymond Rushe, who effectively campaigned as an emergency leader. | |
23 | Raymond Rushe (1899-1977) |
Conservative Party | 1952 | 1962 | ... | |
24 | Micheál Ó Leannáin (1918-1994) |
Conservative Party | 1962 | 1966 (Resigned) | Son of former President Einrí Ó Leannáin Sr. Initially popular due to his personal image and charisma, Ó Leannáin's reputation plummeted as his presidency quickly became overwhelmed with a number of damaging scandals, including his authorisation of the wiretapping and blackmailing of Liberal and Progressive politicians, his sabotage of the failed Indian Civil Rights Act, and allegations of an affair conducted with famous actress Babette Beaubois. In 1966, after impeachment processes began to be charged against him, Ó Leannáin resigned. | |
25 | Barend Moen-Haig (1909-1989) |
Conservative Party | 1966 | 1967 | Barend Moen-Haig became President in the wake of Micheál Ó Leannáin's resignation, and was given the task of cleaning up the party's reputation in time for the 1967 elections. Moen-Haig controversially chose to rehabilitate President Micheál Ó Leannáin, preferring not to "rock the boat". Despite his unpopular image, his cautious strategy is believed to have allowed the Conservative Party to bounce back a decade later in the 1977 elections. Remained leader of the Conservative Party until 1975. | |
26 | Prainsis Ó Leannáin (1926-1972) |
Liberal Progressive Party | 1967 | 1972
(Assassinated) |
Brother of former President Micheál Ó Leannáin, Prainsis Ó Leannáin was elected President of Finntaire in 1967, becoming the first President of the Liberal Progressive Party, a merger of the Liberal and Progressive Parties. In his Presidency, Prainsis Ó Leannáin was controversially tough against organised crime and radicalism, expanded social security, enabled provincial representation reform, and implemented civil rights for indigenous Finntairans. President Ó Leannáin was re-elected in 1972 but was assassinated some months later with the assassin believed to have been working for the Ballysidney Mafia. | |
27 | Lionel Cabot (1910-1998) |
Liberal Progressive Party | 1972 | 1977 | A leader of the Progressive Party who was chosen to run alongside Prainsis Ó Leannáin as a candidate to represent the views of the Progressive wing of the party, Cabot became President of Finntaire after the assassination of his predecessor, serving out the remainder of his term. Cabot focused on increasing connections to the ... Community, and was known for his controversial progressive political views and his individualistic and abrasive attitude. He refused to run for re-election in the 1977 elections in which the Liberal Progressive Party was defeated. | |
28 | Michael Northey (1918-1993) |
Conservative Party | 1977 | 1982 | Michael Northey led the Conservative Party to their election victory in 1977 on a platform against the wasteful spending of the Liberal Progressive Party. Continued to grow Finntairan influence in the ... Community. Northey was chosen as a candidate partly due to how he was notably more liberal than some members of his party, which also led to arguments over some of the policies he enacted. Northey was defeated in the 1982 election. | |
29 | Mághnus Ó Leannáin (1931-2009) |
Progressive Party | 1982 | 1987 | Brother of former President Prainsis Ó Leannáin, Mághnus Ó Leannáin was leader of the Progressive Party since the division of the Liberal Progressive Party in 1979. Mághnus Ó Leannáin drew on many of the ideals of his brother Prainsis while implementing more social democratic policies, expanding Medicare, and raising the minimum wage. Initially popular, Mághnus faced a sluggish economy, growing inflation, and decreasing job rates at the end of his term, hurting his re-election chances and resulting in his defeat in 1986 to Oliver Rush of the Conservative Party | |
30 | Oliver Bohannon (born 1940) |
Conservative Party | 1987 | 1992 | ... |