Before his mentor Sholes died in 1968, Atkins had become vice president of RCA's country division.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

Before becoming president, Madero published another book, this one under the pseudonym of Bhima ( one of Arjuna's brothers in the Mahābhārata ) called a Spiritualist Manual.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Before executing the powers of the office, a president is constitutionally required to take the presidential oath:

Before the election, he founded the Young Nationalists as his party's youth wing and served as its first president.

Before the 2008 presidential election he said, " On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff ," but said in December 2011 that if he were president he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that " would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground.

Before this, presidents used the vice president ( who serves as president of the senate ) as a go-between ; Wilson used the opportunity to show that he did not trust Marshall with delicate business.

Before 1991, the president was selected by the National Assembly of the Republic of China for a term of six years.

Before long, Corley's sinister vice president Adrian Ripburger enters and asks to speak to Ben privately.

Before the meeting took place, French president Jacques Chirac declared on 10 March that France would veto any resolution which would automatically lead to war.

Before signing the group, the label's president, Harold Robinson, was unimpressed with the physical looks of Holt, telling staff he felt Holt was " too dark and too unattractive " to be the lead singer.

Before serving as president, Khatami had been a representative in the parliament from 1980 to 1982, supervisor of the Kayhan Institute, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance ( 1982 – 1986 ), and then for a second term from 1989 to May 24, 1992 ( when he resigned ), the head of the National Library of Iran from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.

Before entering politics, Harris was a marketing executive at IBM and a vice president of a commercial real estate firm.

Before becoming president, Sánchez Hernández was an army general in El Salvador and had brief stints as a military attaché in Washington ( after his participation in the overthrow of José María Lemus in 1960 ) and in Paris.

Before this amendment was passed, a Senate President who became governor or acting governor as a result of a permanent vacancy in the Office of Governor was even more powerful than an elected governor, as he simultaneously served as president of the New Jersey Senate, thus having a major hand in one half of the legislative process and being the executive process.

Before he was president of Central America he was head of state of Honduras, He rose to prominence at the legendary Battle of La Trinidad on November 11, 1827.

Before becoming chairman of Raytheon in January 2004, Swanson was CEO and president of the company.

Before that, he was a Raytheon executive vice president and president of Electronic Systems.

Before Herbert Hoover became president, he befriended AFL President Gompers.

Before the primary, he made it known that he was not planning to run for president and that any delegates pledged to him would not be committed to vote for him after the first round.

Before the talk with the president, Mrs. Roosevelt talked to the group.

Before the arrival in Italy of his candidate Charles, Urban IV died at Perugia on 2 October 1264.

( Before 1804 electors cast two votes together without differentiation as to which office was to be filled by which candidate.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Before Wright's birth, his parents had moved to England when they fell out with their fellow Protestants in the community after his grandfather had challenged tradition by running as an Independent Unionist candidate and defeated the local Official Unionist MP.

Before he was elected he had shown the village his nature by helping to head up a campaign in opposition to a candidate for governor.

Before Simon could put himself forward as a candidate, however, the rebellion had broken down and the people were restless.

Before the December 1918 general election he was the first of the AFIL members to resign his seat in favour of the Sinn Féin party's candidate and spoke in support of P. J.

Before her selection as an astronaut candidate she served as a Flight Surgeon for the Naval Flight Officer advanced training squadron ( VT-86 ) in Pensacola, Florida.

Before ill health drove him from the public arena, Benson became a force within the short-lived Progressive Party, managing the 1948 presidential campaign of its candidate, Henry Wallace.

Before taking the office, the candidate must swear an oath of office administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, promising to uphold the Constitution and laws of the state.

Before the 2005 election he became affiliated with the Independent Network to help promote independent candidates ( its most prominent candidate being Reg Keys who fought against prime minister Tony Blair in the Sedgefield constituency ).

Before his death, he was considered a likely candidate for UN Secretary-General.

Berenger proposed to replace Jugnauth and nominated another candidate, namely Prem Nababsingh to hold the office of Prime Minister. Before passing the motion of no confidence in the parliament, Jugnauth dissolved the assembly without any notice and resigned on the same as Prime Minister.

Before then, Mississippi had not supported the official Democratic candidate since 1956 ( it voted for George Wallace in 1968 ).

Before his term as mayor ended, Walton entered his name in the Democratic primary as a candidate for Governor of Oklahoma to succeed James B.

Before the 2001 General Election he was selected as Conservative candidate for the very safe seat of Huntingdon, following the retirement of sitting MP and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir John Major.

Before investigation into his conduct as governor started, Rowland was viewed as a rising star in the Republican Party, and was mentioned as a future presidential or vice-presidential candidate.

Before the Iowa caucus first received national attention in the 1970s ( Republicans began caucusing in Iowa in 1976 ), the New Hampshire primary was the first binding indication of which presidential candidate would receive the party nomination.

Before False Dmitri II could gain the throne, the Polish commander, voivode, and magnate Stanisław Żółkiewski, put forward a rival candidate: Sigismund's son, Władysław.

Before, he had been the Iranian Minister of Labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran ( running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, both in their second terms ).

Before reporting to the Johnson Space Center in Houston as an astronaut candidate, he was attached to VA-128 as an A-6 flight instructor.

Before the 1874 general election, he was overlooked as the Liberal candidate for Morpeth in favour of miners ' leader Thomas Burt.

Before the 1986 Austrian Presidential Elections, during a meeting of the steering committee of the Burgenland SPÖ, according to a later rendering by Ottilie Matysek, Sinowatz insinuated that one would have to point out to the Austrians that the Austrian People's Party's candidate, Kurt Waldheim, had a " brown " ( i. e. Nazi ) past.

Before 2002 the party had been an insignifanct splinter group which was joined by a large number of former KANU members after the nomination of Uhuru Kenyatta to be KANU's presidential candidate.