David James "Mac" McAllister is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union. On 1 July 2010 McAllister was elected Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony, succeeding Christian Wulff, who resigned following his election as President of Germany. At the time, he was considered a rising star in the CDU, and was even being talked of as a potential successor to Angela Merkel. Until his election defeat on 19 February 2013, he headed a coalition government with the liberal FDP, the Cabinet McAllister. In the 2014 European elections, McAllister was elected a Member of the European Parliament at the top of the CDU's list of candidates in Lower Saxony. A lawyer by profession, he has served as the chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010 and was elected chairman of the state party in 2008. Since 2010, he has also been a member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen. [More at Wikipedia]

January 12th, 1971 in Berlin (Age 53)