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Eamon de Valera
Eamon de Valera.
Eamon de Valera served as the president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973. He was elected to the office in June 1959, at which time he resigned from his position as taoiseach and leader of the Fianna FĂĄil party. He was subsequently reelected to the presidency in 1966.1