predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name
liam Ó buachalla micheál cranitch 3 january 2007 thame , oxfordshire , england county dublin , ireland fianna fáil cathaoirleach of seanad Éireann 22 august 1921 5 november 1969 gráinne yeats michael yeats
 3 january 1973 michael yeats
michael yeats

michael butler yeats -lrb- 22 august 1921 -- 3 january 2007 -rrb- was an irish barrister and fianna fáil politician .
he served two periods as a member of seanad Éireann .
his father was the poet w. b. yeats , who likewise served in the seanad , and his mother was georgie hyde-lees .
his sister anne yeats was a painter and designer , as was his uncle jack butler yeats .
michael was educated at trinity college , dublin and was an officer in the college historical society .
he unsuccessfully stood for election to dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election and the 1951 general election for the dublin south -- east constituency .
following the 1951 election , yeats was nominated to the 7th seanad by the taoiseach Éamon de valera .
he stood at the subsequent election in 1954 for the 8th seanad but was not elected .
from 1961 to 1980 he was a member of seanad Éireann .
in 1961 he was elected to the 10th seanad by the labour panel .
in 1965 he was nominated by the taoiseach seán lemass to the 11th seanad .
in 1969 he was elected to the 12th seanad by the cultural and educational panel , and re-elected to the 13th seanad in 1973 .
in 1977 , he was nominated by the taoiseach jack lynch to the 14th seanad .
he resigned from the seanad on 12 march 1980 .
from 1969 to 1973 , during the 12th seanad , he served as cathaoirleach -lrb- chair -rrb- .
while a senator , yeats served as a member of the european parliament from 1973 to 1979 , being appointed to ireland 's first , second and third delegations .
he stood at the first direct elections in 1979 for the dublin constituency but was not elected .
he was married to gráinne , a singer and irish harpist .
they had four children : daughters caitríona -lrb- a concert harpist -rrb- , siobhán -lrb- a patents professional -rrb- and síle -lrb- a broadcaster with rtÉ who also died in 2007 -rrb- , and a son , pádraig -lrb- an engineer -rrb- .
