Celebrity Who Joined Politics and became a Successful Politician and Leader

Alan Stuart Al Franken is a politician and serving as Senator of Minnesota since 2009. Member of the Democratic Party, narrowly defeated Senator Republican Norm Coleman in the 2008 elections.

On October 29, 2009, Miss Anarkalli was elected to the Southern Provincial Council and is supporting the ruling UPFA.

In 1963 Asaduzzaman Noor officially joined politics after joining the East Pakistan Student Union. In 1965 he was elected the General Secretary of the student body of Nilphamari College.

In the 2001 elections Ejercito was elected mayor of his birthplace Paganjan. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2007. After his third and last consecutive term, he qualified for the elections in 2010 as governor of the province of Laguna.

In 1964 Murphy was elected to the United States Senate, defeating Pierre Salinger, former press secretary of the White House with John F. Kennedy. He served from January 1, 1965 to January 3, 1971.

Bautista is elected as mayor of Quezon City, where he has won by a landslide in May 2010. He won a landslide victory in his re-election in 2007 as deputy mayor.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Roux as senator in August 1994. As a member of the Liberal Party, he was a staunch opponent of Quebec's independence.

Lodge won the governorship nomination of the Republicans in 1950 and was later elected governor of Connecticut. During his tenure, he endorsed laws that improved unemployment and workers compensation allowances.

Rhoma has been active in the political arena, with a history of support for the campaigns for the Islamic political party Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (Union and Development Party).

Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica in the US state of California. She was particularly noted for her professionalism. At the age of three she already took singing and dancing lessons, she always knew her lyrics and dance steps by heart and could cry convincingly on command. Most of her films were characterized by the great optimism with which Temple solved problems and ended quarrels. The films were mostly edits of well-known children's stories. From 1958 to 1961 she was briefly seen in unsuccessful television series. From the 1960s she became involved with the Republican Party. From 1969 to 1970, she was the United States delegate to the United Nations. She was the American ambassador to Ghana (1974-1976) and Czechoslovakia (1989-1992).