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* 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )
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** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( b. 1908 )
Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello ( 22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981 ), known as " The Father of Venezuelan Democracy ", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.
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José Cipriano Castro Ruiz ( 1858 – 1924 ) was a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan military, politician and the President of Venezuela from 1899 to 1908.
* Miguel Otero Silva ( 1908 – 1985 ), Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician
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Lord Rayleigh was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873, and served as president of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908.
Ferreira served as president between 1906 and 1908.
In 1908, Lovett accepted the challenge, and was formally inaugurated as the Institute's first president on October 12, 1912.
Roosevelt was also served as honorary president of the school health organization American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908, and in 1909 he convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.
After getting elected president in his own right in 1904, on election night on the lawn of the White House, Roosevelt publicly declared he would not run for reelection in 1908, a decision that he immediately regretted.
* February 15 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president ( d. 1908 )
By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.
He was the Socialist Party of America candidate for president in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 ( the final time from prison ).
Salvador Allende Gossens (; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973 ) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
In 1908 he kicked-off his campaign for president from the steps of the Crawford county courthouse in Girard.
It was named after John E. Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber and Box Company, which founded the city in 1908.
Keeny, president of Louisiana Tech University from 1908 – 1926, was reared and educated in Boiling Springs.
Rosholt, who was elected the first village president on April 7, 1908.
In 1908, he was appointed Chairman of The National Commission on Country Life by president Theodore Roosevelt.
As president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists ( he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse ) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.
In 1904, the party was re-organized, and Thomas E. Watson was their nominee for president in 1904 and in 1908, after which the party disbanded again.
* Penny Singleton ( 1908 – 2003 ), actress and first woman president of an AFL-CIO union,
Studebaker's president, Fred Fish, had purchased one-third of the E-M-F stock in 1908 and followed up by acquiring all the remainder from J. P. Morgan in 1910 and buying E-M-F's manufacturing plants at Walkerville, Ontario, Canada, and across the river in Detroit.
AISI assumed its present form in 1908, with Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, as its first president.
In the summer of 1908 Ward was asked by George Nathaniel Curzon and William Cremer to become the first president of Britain ’ s Anti-Suffrage League.
He was elected president of the American Philological Association in 1877 and again in 1908 and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as of various learned societies.
It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president.
* Daniel Coit Gilman ( 1831 – 1908 ), educator, college president, foundation president
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