When Chinese revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen came to America in late 1909 on a fund-raising trip, he met with Yung Wing, who convinced him that Lea and the Red Dragon conspirators could benefit his revolutionary movement.

Preston Lea Spruance III or " Trey Spruance " ( born August 14, 1969 ) is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as the leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3 and for his work as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle.

Lea is notable for being the first openly gay political party leader in Canadian history.

In his time as leader though, Lea worked to create a more usual party structure.

Lea was the first Green Party of Canada leader to do a national tour ( from Halifax to Clayoquot Sound, by bike, rail and air, during the 1993 general election ) and was the first to represent the Party in a nationally televised debate.

During the time Chris Lea was leader, the Green Party of Canada was often distracted by threats to its survival, as the Party had difficulty raising money and was reliant on well-dispersed volunteers for statutory paperwork, which was often late.

In 1996, after six years of a gay man being the leader, the Green Party of Canada was comfortable enough with homosexuality that it adopted a policy in support of gay marriage ( that was not proposed by Chris Lea ).

As party leader, Lea campaigned for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 federal election, and received 623 votes in the Toronto riding of Trinity — Spadina for a sixth-place finish.

Lea has long been an ally of Jim Harris in the Toronto Green community, and supported Harris's bid for re-election as party leader in 2004.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

As usual, he made no attempt to get in touch with Carmine G. De Sapio, the Manhattan leader.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

Isaac made a desperate attack on the imperial agents and killed their leader Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

The Born brothers were kept in a known Argentine State Intelligence safehouse for nine months until their June 1975 release, something made possible without public suspicion of outside involvement by the agency's numerous contacts inside the Montoneros ( including the leader, Mario Firmenich ).

On 14 October 1964 the Central Committee, alongside the Presidium, made it clear that Khrushchev himself did not fit the model of a " Leninist leader ", and he was forced to resign from all his post, and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

The liaison conference created in 1893 also made the Emperor the leader of the Imperial General Headquarters.

In the same year, Yoshishige Yoshida made the film Coup d ' État, a portrait of Ikki Kita, the leader of the Japanese coup of February 1936.

In the end, the economic and political investments that Germany had made in Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin had paid off.

The order was made by a presidential decree on state television and is the first major diplomatic move made by the new leader.

The remaining checks, made out to " Treasurer General of the Republic " ( a position that ceased to exist after the revolution ), were shown stuffed in a desk drawer in Castro's office during a television interview with the leader years ago.

Trujillo later made public all his correspondence with the Haitian leader.

Relations were particularly close with Ubico, who helped Carías reorganize his secret police and also captured and shot the leader of a Honduran uprising who had made the mistake of crossing into Guatemalan territory.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

After Nicolae Ceauşescu ( the communist leader of Romania ) was executed in a revolution, Alia knew that he would be next if changes were not made.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

Major's mild-mannered style and moderate political stance made him theoretically well-placed to act as a conciliatory leader of his party.

* 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister ; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

Liebknecht, a founder and leader of the German Social-Democratic Party, gave a speech in German, and Longuet, a prominent figure in the French working-class movement, made a short statement in French.

At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA ’ s all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, defensive rebounds, and personal fouls.

The prevalent " urban " line, endorsed by North Vietnam, recognized that Sihanouk, by virtue of his success in winning independence from the French, was a genuine national leader whose neutralism and deep distrust of the United States made him a valuable asset in Hanoi's struggle to " liberate " South Vietnam.

Alternative Worship often does not have an obvious leader or stage, and may not involve singing or lecture-style presentations at all.

Meanwhile he had continued his research in Germany, in Leipzig and Halle, and would keep close contact with German universities for all of his life ; although as a teacher and scientific leader he was known for his " Anglo-Saxon style " — clear and simplistic in his presentations emphasizing the grand lines rather than intriguing details and exceptions — but also as demanding, authoritarian, keen of the dignity of his office, and maybe too self-confident.

Past events have included ex-Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, presentations by the Beehive Collective, and numerous small concerts, including many by members of the Riot Folk Collective, and Charming Hostess.

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

The group encompassed a range of ideological outlooks, from conspiratorially-minded army officers to idealistic youths, sometimes tending towards republicanism, despite the acquisition of nationalistic royal circles in its activities ( the movement's leader, Col. Dragutin Dimitrijević or " Apis ," had been instrumental in the June 1903 coup which had brought King Petar Karađorđević to the Serbian throne following 45 years of rule by the rival Obrenović dynasty ).

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

* Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family and leader of insurgents against the Xin Dynasty, proclaims himself emperor against Wang Mang.

The malcontents chose D. John, 1383. grand-master of the knights of Aviz and illegitimate son of Pedro the Severe, as their leader, organized a revolt in Lisbon, and assassinated the count of Ourém within the royal palace ( December 6, 1383 ).

From an economic perspective, the Republic of the United Provinces completely outperformed all expectations ; it was a surprise to many that a nation not based on the church or on a single royal leader could be so successful.

Prior to ascending the throne, he was a leader of the royal army in the French Wars of Religion against the Huguenots, and took part in the victories over them at Battle of Jarnac and Battle of Moncontour.

The royal army, split in several forces, easily conquered Aversa and even Alife, the base of the natural rebel leader, Ranulf.

Stephen drew heavily on his wife, Queen Matilda, during the conflict, both for leading negotiations and maintaining his cause and army while imprisoned in 1141 ; Matilda led the royal household during this period in partnership with Stephen's mercenary leader William of Ypres.

As leader of the National Guard, Lafayette had been responsible for the royal family's custody.

Shortly after the royal family's move to Chengzhou, a hierarchical alliance system arose where the Zhou king would give the title of hegemon to the leader of the state with the most powerful military ; the hegemon was obligated to protect both the weaker Zhou states and the Zhou royalty from the intruding non-Zhou peoples: the Northern Di, the Southern Man, the Eastern Yi, and the Western Rong.

Apparently the usurpation of kings caused little tumult or crisis in this state, as Barros noted any leader there was believed by the locals not to have divine right to rule if he was able to be killed by a royal kinsman.

For the Crown to nominate the political leader whose party controls the Cortes can be seen as a royal endorsement of the democratic process, a fundamental concept enshrined in the 1978 constitution.

For the Crown to nominate the political leader whose party controls the Congress can be seen as a royal endorsement of the democratic process — a fundamental concept enshrined in the 1978 Constitution.

The office of chancellor ( or royal chancellor ) seems to have appeared in the 12th century, and until 1660 it was the title of the leader of the state administration ( a kind of a " Home Office " but often with foreign political duties ).

During his time training with the royal leader, Rex is informed that he is the ninth student of Kabala, hence the number 9.

The earliest known example comes from Hernando Pizarro, the brother of the Spanish military leader Francisco Pizarro, who recorded an encounter that he and his men had in 1533 as they traveled along the royal road from the highlands to the central coast.

Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet ( 1713 – 11 September 1769 ) was a British colonial leader who served as governor of Jamaica and as royal Governor of Province of New York from 1765 to 1769.

Josce of York, the leader of the Jewish community, led the local Jewish families into the royal castle, where they took refuge in the wooden keep.

His experience with the French, first as a client, then as the self-proclaimed leader of the " royal crusade for independence ", apparently led him to conclude that the United States, like France, would eventually be forced to leave Southeast Asia.

In the former Kingdom of Bavaria, the generalkapitän was the leader of the royal Hartschier guard.

To appease the Baganda he re-instituted the Kabaka and other royal palaces, promoted economic liberalisation and established himself as more of a civilian politician than a guerrilla leader.

In November 1918, the Spartacist leader, Karl Liebknecht, declared the German Socialist Republic from a balcony of the Stadtschloss, ending more than 400 years of royal occupation of the building.

The texts dealing with royal power in medieval Norway, the Heimskringla and the Konungs skuggsjá (" King's Mirror "), explicit the link between a king or leader and his retainers ( housecarls and hirðmenn ).

Cunedda ap Edern, 5th century ; also known as Cunedda Wledig (" holder of lands "), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd.