As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the Secretary of State is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the President and Vice President and is fourth in line to succeed the Presidency, coming after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

He became the highest-ranking Republican senator, serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947 until 1949, Senate Minority Leader from 1952 until 1953, President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Republicans had control of it from 1953 until 1955, chairman of the Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements for both of the inaugurations of President Dwight Eisenhower, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947 – 1949 and 1953 – 1955, and Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1954 until his death.

Kehoe was elected Assembly Speaker pro Tempore, the Assembly's second highest-ranking position.

Being the highest-ranking officers in the raiding party, both von Brandis and Haupt won the highest German military decoration, Pour le Mérite, for their success in this extraordinary action.

A chief executive officer ( CEO, American English ), managing director ( MD, British English ), executive director ( ED, American English ) for non-profit organizations, or chief executive ( CE, British English ) is the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive ) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization.

Backes, formerly the third highest-ranking officer of Clearstream and a primary source for Denis Robert's book on Clearstream's scandal, Revelation $, claims he " was fired because ( he ) knew too much about the Ambrosiano scandal.

The Corps of Engineers was the usual appointment for the highest-ranking cadets in a class.

Although very small, Yamanouchi is famous for its traditional atmosphere and the presence, among others, of three of the five highest-ranking Rinzai Zen temples in Kamakura, the.

Among the main features of RRG are the use of lexical decomposition, based upon the predicate semantics of David Dowty ( 1979 ), an analysis of clause structure, and the use of a set of thematic roles organized into a hierarchy in which the highest-ranking roles are ' Actor ' ( for the most active participant ) and ' Undergoer '.

Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.

Outside of hierarchical services, the subdeacon serves in the altar as any other server but, as highest-ranking of the minor clergy, is responsible for co-ordinating and leading the serving team.

As one of the highest-ranking Catholics in the country, Catherine was an obvious target for Protestant extremists, and it was hardly surprising that the Popish Plot of 1678 would directly threaten her position.

The Chief Justice is the highest-ranking judicial officer in the country and is responsible for administration of the Court and the discipline of justices.

The highest-ranking cards, starting with the aces and kings, were used for the people at the top of the most-wanted list.

When in 1969 his predecessor as Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, launched his campaign for the Presidency of the PNP, he turned to P. J. Patterson, youngest of the highest-ranking segment of the party executive, to lead his campaign.

Johnson ordered that the highest-ranking Marine officer, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, be deleted from the official roll of chiefs of service branches authorized a driver and limousine, and for whom a special gun salute was prescribed on ceremonial occasions.

Determined to secure the highest-ranking mate possible for her only daughter, a union that would emphasize the preeminence of the Vanderbilt family in New York society, Alva Vanderbilt engineered a meeting between Consuelo and the land-rich, money-poor Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, chatelain of Blenheim Palace.

Since he was a member of the influential Brahman caste ( the highest-ranking caste ), it is reasonable to assume that he supported caste distinctions, and the Guptas may have been responsible for the emergence of Brahmanism as a theological system as well as a code of social behaviour, which was carried into present Hindu society.

President was for a long time the highest-ranking title in the bank's history, however this was superseded by Chief Executive Officer in the modern era, starting with G. Arnold Hart.

Field of operations: The office of Prosecutor-General is the public prosecutor in the Supreme Court, it represents the highest-ranking prosecutor and it is the central administrative agency for the prosecution authorities.

Despite his disapproval of his fellow military top brass, Naguib remained in the army in order for the Free Officers not to lose their highest-ranking officer and most influential member, although many today argue that his position on the top was merely a figurehead leader to the revolutionary Free Officers Movement to lend credibility to the group.

Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: " I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there ," he said later.

The paper's coverage contributed to federal investigations and attracted controversy for its implication of AIM leadership in the murder of Aquash, the highest-ranking woman in AIM.

This was further reinforced by Stalin's decision to declare damnatio memoriae on Yezhov, a fate normally reserved for only the highest-ranking and most prominent of Stalin's political enemies, and all evidence of his existence was quietly censored from State records and publications.

Other benefits to top finishers include invitations to future Pro Tours, with the highest-ranking players over the course of several Pro Tour events receiving additional prize money for travel and participation.

* Steve Harris as Eugene Young ( 1997 – 2004 ), was the second highest-ranking partner at the firm, and senior partner for the show's final season.

In England and Wales, he was the highest-ranking judge in regular courtroom service ; he was personally responsible for adding " and Wales " to the office's title.

The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and he has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments, as specified by the Maryland Constitution.

A church that is autonomous has its highest-ranking bishop, such as an archbishop or metropolitan, appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but is self-governing in all other respects.

She was the first woman to hold the office and to date, has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history.

A church that is autonomous has its highest-ranking bishop, such as an archbishop or metropolitan, appointed by the patriarch of the mother church from which it was granted its autonomy, but is self-governing in all other respects.

He has been involved with U. S. policy makers at the White House, State Department and Pentagon since the mid-1980s, and was the highest-ranking Muslim American in the Administration of U. S. President George W. Bush.

A has ( خاص ) was the largest unit of land, giving revenues of more than 100, 000 akçe, and was only held by the highest-ranking members of the military.

Despite being the second highest-ranking office in California, the Lieutenant Governor has no real responsibility or power to represent the governor on issues such as trade negotiations or a legislative agenda ( i. e. in contrast to its powerful counterpart in Texas ), so the job has been jokingly defined by political insiders as " get up, read the paper, see if the governor is dead, if not, go back to sleep.

Anthropologist Ruud Van Akkeren has proposed that the ancient name of the city was Kooja, the name of one of the highest-ranking elite lineages of the Mam Maya ; Kooja means " Moon halo ".

Even every of the sixteen German state police departements has an inspector, as the highest-ranking police officer.

The current highest-ranking gyoji is the 36th Kimura Shōnosuke and has held the position since October 31, 2011.

From that date through the present, the Chief of Naval operations has nearly always been the highest-ranking U. S. Navy officer.

Since September 1947, the CNO has held the additional position of Chief of Staff of the U. S. Navy, and he is the highest-ranking naval officer except when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also a U. S. Navy officer.

She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor.

Despite not being the highest-ranking officer, in Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff is considered a powerful officer as can be seen by the number of times the Army Chief of Staff has overthrown the government and declared himself the ruler of the country.

Their leader Khrone sends the scribe Uxtal ( presumably the highest-ranking, if only, Lost Teliaxu left alive ) to serve the renegade Honored Matre leader Hellica, who has proclaimed herself Matre Superior and now rules the conquered Bene Tleilax homeworld, Tleilax.

Some of Scientology's highest-ranking members have disagreed with Greene in print interviews: Kurt Weiland, Director of external affairs for the Church of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs, Scientology's vice president of communications and a member of the organization's Board of Directors has stated " We don't react kindly to attempts to extort money from the church, especially if it's done through lies and allegations by people like Ford Greene.

It is generally not good strategy to overtake a trick on which the defense already has the highest-ranking card.

The same WHO note ranks antidepressants according to withdrawal, with paroxetine having the highest number of withdrawal syndrome reports and fluoxetine the highest number of drug dependence reports ; the note concludes, " Three SSRIs are among the 30 highest-ranking drugs in the list of drugs for which drug dependence has ever been reported to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre database ; a total of 269 reports had been received as of June 2002 ( 109 reports for fluoxetine, 91 for paroxetine and 69 for sertraline ).