Pat Cox

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pat Cox
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 28, 1952(1952-11-28)
Age	72
Birthplace	Dublin
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Scorpio

Pat Cox Biography

Pat Cox is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 28, 1952 in Dublin, Ireland. Patrick Cox (born 28 November 1952) is a prominent Irish politician, and a former TV presenter of current affairs. Cox was president of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and was an elected participant in the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004. Prior to this, Cox was presenter and journalist for the RTE’s Today Tonight and then a Teachta Dala (TD) for Cork South-Central.

In the general election of 1992, Cox was selected in the 1992 general election to Dail Eireann in the role of the Teachta Dala (TD) to represent Cork South- Central. After Desmond O’Malley’s resignation from the party’s the leadership during 1993. Cox was a candidate for office to this post , but was defeated in the race by Mary Harney. He was made the deputy leader.

When incumbent Gijs de Vries stepped down to enter the government of Prime Minister Wim Kok of the Netherlands, Cox was elected president of the ELDR group in the European Parliament in 1998, becoming the first Irishman to lead a political group in the Parliament. He subsequently played a key role in the fall of the Santer Commission by consistently – and loudly – calling for the Commissioners to resign.

Cox was unanimously re-elected Group President in June 1999 following his re- election as an MEP at the 1999 European Parliament election. He resigned this post when he became President of the European Parliament on 15 January 2002 in accordance with an agreement between the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and the ELDR groups at the start of the term (in the customary two- way split of the five-year Presidency of the European Parliament). He succeeded the Frenchwoman Nicole Fontaine. At his first press conference following his election as president he spoke positively of direct talks between the Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktaş.

Cox was elected as an MEP in 1989 in the district of Munster which is a part of his party, the Progressive Democrats (PDs). In his first term, Cox was on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy.

Pat Cox Net Worth

Pat Cox is one of the richest Politician from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pat Cox 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cox ran as Cox was a Fianna Fail candidate at the 1979 local elections in 1979.

Cox first gained acclaim as a journalist and later as a host on the RTE’s Today Tonight, a four-nights-a-week program that dominated the Irish TV schedules in the 1980s. He left the program to run for political office.

Cox left the PDs in 1994 in a dispute over his seat as an MEP. It was expected that Cox would not contest his seat in the 1994 European elections, with O’Malley, who had a large Munster base in Limerick city and County Limerick, becoming the party candidate. However Cox then decided to contest the seat as an independent, beating O’Malley, the PD candidate. On being elected, he resigned his Dáil seat and a by-election was held on 10 November 1994, which was won by Fine Gael. He subsequently served on the Committee on Institutional Affairs from 1994 until 1997 and on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy from 1997 until 1999. In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the Parliament’s delegation for relations with South Africa.

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Also in 2009, Cox co-founded the European Privacy Association.

Facts & Trivia

Pat Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Pat Cox celebrates birthday on November 28 of every year.

In June 2011 Irish media reported that Cox, who had previously said he wanted to stand as an independent candidate in 2011’s Irish presidential election, was seeking to join Fine Gael to get the party’s nomination. Fine Gael’s national executive on 16 June 2011 approved his application to join the party’s St Luke’s branch in Cork. In July 2011 Gay Mitchell became the Fine Gael candidate. Before that, Cox was “pleased” to help prepare Fine Gael’s first-100-day strategy after it won the 2011 Irish general election.