Republican governor James R. Thompson reorganized low-profile departments before his re-election in 1978.

Argall also brought news that the ( South ) Virginia Company of London was being reorganized and was sending more supplies and settlers to Jamestown along with a new governor, Lord De la Warr.

In 1901 the Negros Oriental province was reorganized by the United States and a civil government was established with Demetrio Larena as governor.

He was unwilling to accept a solution whereby all the justices resigned from both courts, and the governor would appoint a reorganized court made up equally of Old Court and New Court supporters.

According to the Ostmarkgesetz with effect from 1 May 1939 the former States of Austria were reorganized into seven Reichsgaue, each under the rule of a government official holding the dual offices of Reichsstatthalter ( governor ) and Gauleiter ( Nazi Party leader ):

In 1931, Wisconsin's reform-minded Republican governor, Philip La Follette, asked him to become a member of the state's reorganized Public Service Commission.

While governor, the executive branch of the Maryland government was reorganized into twelve departments.

* In 1831, the first governor of independent Greece, Ioannis Capodistrias administratively reorganized the Peloponnese into seven departments and the islands into six.

His term as governor of Oklahoma was from January 13, 1947 to January 8, 1951, during which the State Highway Department and the State Planning and Resources Board were reorganized ; the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority was established ; a Board of Regents for State Colleges was created ; and segregation in higher education was ended in the state.

The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

He was reelected Virginia's governor four times.

After the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the royal governor in 1774, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions.

Soon after his appointment, however, in 1770, Virginia's governor, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt ( Lord Botetourt ) died, and Dunmore was named to replace him.

During his term as Virginia's colonial governor, he directed a series of campaigns against the Indians known as Lord Dunmore's War.

Fincastle was founded in 1772 and named after Lord Fincastle, son of Lord Dunmore, Virginia's last royal governor.

Thomas Jefferson, who had just finished his final term as Virginia's governor, responded to this query with a manuscript that later became his famous " Notes on the State of Virginia ".

Originally dubbed Fort Fincastle in 1774, the fort was later renamed Fort Henry in honor of Virginia's American governor, Patrick Henry.

Lord Dunmore was Virginia's last royal governor, and was forced from office during the American Revolution.

Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety from August 16, 1775 to July 5, 1776 ( effectively serving as governor of the colony ) and as President of the Virginia Convention which authorized Virginia's delegates to propose a resolution to move for the break from Britain and creation of the Declaration of Independence.

Powell swore in Virginia's first black governor, Douglas Wilder, in 1990.

In 1612, a Virginia governor declared the death penalty for a person that denied the Trinity under Virginia's Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, which also outlawed blasphemy, speaking badly of ministers and royalty, and " disgraceful words.

While he was governor, Byrd built up contacts with the " courthouse cliques " in most of Virginia's counties.

Wood was elected as Virginia's fourth governor in 1796, serving until 1799.

Before becoming governor, Stanley was the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and a U. S. Representative in Congress from November 5, 1946, filling vacancy created when Thomas G. Burch resigned to assume U. S. Senate seat, until Stanley resigned on February 3, 1953 to run for Virginia's governor.

After his unsuccessful bid for governor in 1877, he became the leader of the Readjuster Party, a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and African-Americans seeking a reduction in Virginia's prewar debt, and an appropriate allocation made to the former portion of the state that constituted the new State of West Virginia.

Virginia's governor was overthrown by Nathaniel Bacon, who promised to exterminate the Susquehannock.

The first was the Quaker Act of 1662 ,< ref >' Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the Mischeifs In November 1775, Virginia's former royal governor claimed that all slaves would be freed if they were willing to fight for Great Britain.

As governor, he created unemployment insurance and, after the repeal of prohibition, he created Virginia's Alcohol Beverage Control board.

The Declaration of the People of Virginia ( or simply Declaration of the People ) was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaims Virginia's colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure to provide colonists protection from some tribes of Native Americans — the presumed grievances which brought about the uprising known as Bacon's rebellion.

Virginia's governor, Lord Dunmore, traveled to Pittsburgh, which Virginia claimed as part of its territory, to appoint government officials under the Virginia charter.

The Council and governor decided that in light of the abilities of Virginia's remaining delegates, Wythe did not need to be replaced.

The Saponi entered into a new treaty of trade with Virginia's governor, Alexander Spotswood.

Phillip was a far-sighted governor, who soon saw that New South Wales would need a civil administration and a system for emancipating the convicts.

The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, fearing civil war if the order were carried out, delayed implementing it for nearly a year.

Diocletian's reforms shifted the governors ' main function to that of the presiding official in the lower courts: whereas in the early Empire military and judicial functions were the function of governor, and procurators had supervised taxation ; under the new system vicarii and governors were responsible for justice and taxation, and a new class of duces (" dukes "), acting independently of the civil service, had military command.

However, the city remained the seat of a governor and had state factories for the production of ballistae and armor, and a wool mill for uniforms for the troops, clothing for the civil service and high-quality garments for the Court.

Estêvão da Gama was appointed alcaide-mór ( civil governor ) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478, and continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region.

Under his successor Samsu-iluna ( 1749-1712 BC ) the far south of Mesopotamia was lost to a native Akkadian king called Ilum-ma-ili and became The Sealand Dynasty, remaining free of Babylon for the next 272 years, and both the Babylonians and Amorites were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian governor named Puzur-Sin, and after a civil war, a native king named Adasi seized power.

The German civil governor, Baron von der Lancken, is known to have stated that Cavell should be pardoned because of her complete honesty and because she had helped save so many lives, German as well as Allied.

" Frustration over Vietnam ; too much federal spending and ... taxation ; no great public support for your Great Society programs ; and ... public disenchantment with the civil rights programs " had eroded the President's standing, the governor reported.

The first civil governor of the island under the Foraker Act was Charles H. Allen, inaugurated on May 1, 1900 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The PPP also sought to implement its reform program at a rapid pace, which brought the party into confrontation with the governor and with high-ranking civil servants who preferred more gradual change.

The circle included Muravyov's young Chief of Staff, Kukel – who Kropotkin related had the complete works of Alexander Herzen – the civil governor Izvolsky

Each province was now supported by a Military Governor ( 都督 ) as well as a civil authority, giving each governor control of their own army.

In 1595, the Riksdag of Söderköping elected Charles regent, and his attempt to force Klas Flemming, governor of Österland ( Finland of the day ), to submit to his authority, rather than to that of the king, provoked a civil war.

Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.

Once in office as governor on May 21, 1928, Long moved quickly to consolidate his power, firing hundreds of opponents in the state bureaucracy, at all ranks from cabinet-level heads of departments and board members to rank-and-file civil servants and state road workers.

Baldwin insisted on going to Thessalonica ; Boniface laid siege to Adrianople, where Baldwin had established a governor ; civil war seemed inevitable.

They do not have an elected government ; they are governed by a " civil governor " appointed by the central government.

Between 1528 and 1559 he worked as a leader of the financial department council and as the civil governor of Mexico City.

After victory in 150 BCE, Jonathan ~ becomes civil governor of Israel.

Balas appointed Jonathan as strategos and " meridarch " ( i. e., civil governor of a province ; details not found in Josephus ), sent him back with honors to Jerusalem, and refused to listen to the Hellenistic party's complaints against Jonathan.

Of most immediate importance was the creation of relief work by a governor who saw it as a way to avoid civil disturbances.

Nomura was appointed governor of Saitama Prefecture in 1873 and appointed Kiyoura to a junior-grade civil service position there.

The word ' king ' may be misleading and it is more likely that the ' province ' of the Cantiaci was ruled jointly by a civil governor ( Gwrangon?

In 2000, the image of the smiling governor frisking Rolax was published in newspapers statewide, which drew criticism from civil rights leaders who saw the incident as a violation of Rolax's civil rights and an endorsement by Whitman of racial profilingespecially since Rolax was not arrested or found to be violating any law.