1. James Clement Dooge was an Irish Fine Gael politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1981 to 1982, Leader of the Seanad and Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 1982 to 1987 and Cathaoirleach of Seanad Eireann from 1973 to 1977.
James Dooge served as a Senator from 1961 to 1977 and 1981 to 1987.
James Dooge was a member of the Fellowship of Engineering, and worked as an expert consultant to a wide range of specialised United Nations agencies including UNESCO, World Meteorological Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
James Dooge acted in an expert consultancy role to DGXII at the European Commission.
James Dooge was as only the second senator since 1937 to be appointed to the cabinet.
James Dooge was educated in Liverpool before moving to Dun Laoghaire and was educated by at Christian Brothers College.
James Dooge's father was an engineer, and so were other relatives.
At school James Dooge convinced the authorities to bring in an applied mathematics teacher in to tutor him on the subject.
James Dooge went on to University College Dublin and qualified as an engineer.
In 1958 James Dooge became Professor of Civil engineering at University College Cork.
Between 1984 and 1987 James Dooge worked at the Department of Engineering Hydrology at University College Galway.
James Dooge received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2000.
James Dooge was involved in some of the earliest work done to identify the causes of climate change.
James Dooge was heavily involved in the discussions within WMO in 1978 that eventually led to the first World Climate Conference being held in Geneva in 1979.
James Dooge served as chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Climate Impact Advisory Committee and, on behalf of the UN secretary general, on the International Decade of Natural Disasters Advisory Board.
James Dooge arranged for the Conference to be held in Dublin in January 1992.
James Dooge's great-grandfather had been the first chair of the elected Kingstown County Borough Council.
From 1961 to 1977 James Dooge was a Senator in Seanad Eireann, serving as its Cathaoirleach from 1973 to 1977.
James Dooge worked closely with his colleague Garret FitzGerald from the 1960s onward in establishing the so-called Just Society wing of the Fine Gael party.
In 1977 James Dooge retired from politics, choosing to "devote more time to academic concerns and international cooperation in science and engineering".
The appointment was suggested by FitzGerald's wife who believed only James Dooge could stop him frequently interfering in this area.
James Dooge rejected an offer from FitzGerald of becoming a European Commissioner.
James Dooge was a delegate of Fine Gael at the New Ireland Forum in 1985.
James Dooge had a primary role in the intergovernmental building of a report into improving the co-operation of the European Economic Community in 1984 during Ireland's presidency.
James Dooge's appointment was not without controversy: Garret FitzGerald insisted on the appointment of Dooge despite German pressure for West Germany's former president, Karl Carstens, to be given the role.
James Dooge was hailed as one of the founding fathers of modern hydrology.
James Dooge died at his home in Dublin on 20 August 2010.