Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk ( now Ulyanovsk ) on the Volga River into the family of a secondary school principal.

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He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August / September 1917 that purported to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d ' état.

* 1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician ( d. 1970 )

The formation of the second coalition government, with Alexander Kerensky as chairman, was completed on 24 July.

The Provisional government that replaced the Tsar ( initially presided by prince Georgy Lvov, later by Alexander Kerensky ), however, decided to continue the war on the Entente side.

) – Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of the Russian Provisional Government, replacing Prince Georgy Lvov.

* Minister-Chairman Alexander Kerensky ( Russia )

As the Bolsheviks approached, Alexander Kerensky of the Provisional Government had them moved to Tobolsk, Siberia.

The family ( and Dr. Botkin ( Timothy West ) and Nagorny ) are forced to leave the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo by Kerensky and are brought to Siberia in mid-1917, where they live under less grand conditions with rough but decent guards.

Lvov was replaced by the Socialist Revolutionary minister Alexander Kerensky as head of the government.

The meeting with Duma President Rodzyanko, the new Prime Minister Prince Lvov, and other ministers, including Pavel Milyukov and Alexander Kerensky, lasted all morning.

By July, Prince Lvov had resigned as Prime Minister to be replaced by Alexander Kerensky, who ordered ex-Emperor Nicholas removed from Petrograd to Tobolsk in the Urals because it was " some remote place, some quiet corner, where they would attract less attention ".

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

The Kornilov Affair, or the Kornilov Putsch ( Kornilov Coup ) as it is sometimes referred to, was an ( alleged ) attempted coup d ' état by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Lavr Kornilov, in August 1917 against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky.

Believing he would gain the support of the dissenting army chiefs, Alexander Kerensky, the head of the Government, yielded to their demand and reintroduced the death penalty at the front line on July 12.

In November 1917, it won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections ( to the Russian Constituent Assembly ), but soon split and the remaining faction of this party who remained loyal to Alexander Kerensky was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the course of the Russian Civil War and subsequent persecution.

One of PSR members, Alexander Kerensky joined the Provisional Government in March 1917 as Minister of Justice, eventually becoming the head of a coalition socialist-liberal government in July 1917, although his connection with the party was rather tenuous.

After the collapse of the Autocracy ( see Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia ), he developed close relations with the liberal Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky that formed after the February Revolution.

The Theses were issued 4 April 1917, just over a month after the February Revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the collapse of Imperial Russia, and the establishment of the liberal Provisional Government under Georgy Lvov and later Alexander Kerensky.

When other Kadet ministers left the government in protest on July 2, Nekrasov resigned from the party and became deputy prime minister on July 8 after Alexander Kerensky replaced Georgy Lvov as head of government.

Plekhanov lent support to the idea that Lenin was a " German agent " and urged the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky to take severe repressive measures against the Bolshevik organization to halt its political machinations.

He was pro-Menshevik and defended the government of Alexander Kerensky, who he even personally visited in Petrograd.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

As Prime Minister, Alexander Mackenzie strove to reform and simplify the machinery of government.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

* 1883 – Alexander Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1955 )

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

* 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a transfer of power from his Conservative government to a Liberal government led by Alexander Mackenzie.

* Francis Alexander Anglin ( as Chief Justice, 16 September 1924 – 28 February 1933 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, 23 February 1909 )

* Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie ( Canada )

* November 7 – Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada.

** Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.

* January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1892 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Gareth Evans and Prime Minister Paul Keating ( 1991 – 1996 ) gave maintenance of close relations with the Indonesian government a high priority, as did the subsequent Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer during their first term in office ( 1996 – 1998 ).

In late 1998, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard with his Foreign Minister Alexander Downer drafted a letter setting out a major change in Australian policy.

Ahtisaari invited Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Stubb and others to his Nobel event, but not President Halonen.

Alexander " Alec " Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel ( ), KT, PC ( 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher invoked the example of Churchill during the Falklands War of 1982: " When the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, urged her to reach a compromise with the Argentines she rapped sharply on the table and told him, pointedly, ' that this was the table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little '.