List of First Ministers
| Name | Picture | Entered office | Left office | Party | Executive | Reason for leaving office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Donald Dewar | 7 May 1999 | 11 October 2000 | Labour | Dewar |
Died in office | ||
| 2. | Henry McLeish | 27 October 2000 | 8 November 2001 | Labour | McLeish |
Resigned | ||
| 3. | Jack McConnell | 22 November 2001 | 16 May 2007 | Labour | McConnell I McConnell II |
Lost election | ||
| 4. | Alex Salmond | 16 May 2007 | Incumbent | Scottish National Party | Salmond I Salmond II |
Incumbent | ||
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“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)