Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is Africa's longest serving dictator.

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

El Salvador became the last and longest serving Latin American nation in the Iraq War.

Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date.

By convention, the longest serving state governor holds a dormant commission, allowing an assumption of office to commence whenever a vacancy occurs.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

" The State's longest serving Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, was also reported as saying: " It's a political push to make way in New South Wales to lead the push for a republic.

* World's longest serving current head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand ( since 9 June 1946: ()).

He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 and, after a two-week pause, from 1982 to 1992, making him Germany's longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor.

In 2003 Dr Mahathir, Malaysia's longest serving prime minister, voluntarily retired in favour of his new deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

David Remez was the first signatory to pass away, dying in May 1951, while Meir Vilner, the youngest signatory at just 29, was the longest living, serving in the Knesset until 1990 and dying in June 2003.

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.

She was the first female Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

The lineup of the band has changed several times, and the longest serving and now core members of the band are lead singer and songwriter Jason " Jay " Kay and drummer Derrick McKenzie ( since 1994 ).

The longest serving president in Liberian history was William Tubman, serving from 1944 until his death in 1971.

By December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

At the end of his presidency, he was the longest serving leader in Asia.

A. 50 BMG |. 50 caliber M2 Browning machine gun | M2 machine gun: John Browning's design has been one of the longest serving and most successful machine gun designs

Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy ( not counting St. Peter ).

He was elected at the conclusion of a papal election that ran from 1268 to 1271, the longest papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

* 1271 – September 1 – Pope Gregory X is elected pope by compromise between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.

The Gower constituency has elected only Labour members of Parliament since 1906, the longest run ( with Normanton and Makerfield ) of any UK constituency.

He was first elected in 1983, making him the longest serving Commissioner in Umatilla County's history.

" Butch " Jordan, holds the World Record for being the longest serving elected police chief, which he has been since 1962.

Mount Airy is also the hometown of the nation's longest serving elected state official, Tommy Irvin, the state agriculture commissioner.

Village President ( Mayor ) Richard Hofeld is the current and longest serving Mayor in Homewood history, having been elected to his fourth term in May 2009, as head of the Greater Homewood Party ( GHP ).

It was " All in the Family " from 1981 until 1983 when father and son Raymond Gavin, who would actually go on to serve as one of the longest serving Village Trustee ( elected to 5 terms but would resign before the end ) and his son David Gavin would serve on the Village Board together.

At the ensuing conclave ( the longest of the 20th century ), Ratti was elected Pope on 6 February 1922 on the fourteenth ballot, taking the name of Pius XI.

In April 2012 the council resolved to split the roles of Chairman and Mayor of Frodsham and separate votes are now held for each position-although the council also resolved to offer the Mayorship to the councillor who had served the longest since last being Mayor, or having been first elected.

The longest serving member of the council was Jonathan Vaughan, who was successively elected to office 5 times in a row and was co-opted onto the council by Dr. Kay to ensure continuity and experience was present.

Owen was elected Vancouver ’ s 42nd mayor in November 1993, and was re-elected in 1996 and 1999, making him Vancouver ’ s longest serving consecutive-term mayor.

He was elected President of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1978 and re-elected every two years to 1996, making his time as State Senate President the longest tenure in Massachusetts history.

* Paul Moreno – Former Texas Democratic State Representative, longest serving Mexican American elected official in the United States

In the pays d ' élection ( the longest held possessions of the French crown ; some of these provinces had had the equivalent autonomy of a pays d ' état in an earlier period, but had lost it through the effects of royal reforms ) the assessment and collection of taxes were entrusted to elected officials ( at least originally ; later, these positions were bought ), and the tax was generally " personal ", meaning it was attached to non-noble individuals.

On 10 December 2008, as the member of the Federal Council that hasn't been its president for the longest time, Merz was elected President of the Confederation for 2009.

On January 20, 2005, Mr. Seaga retired as Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, a position which he held for 30 years as well as Member of Parliament after serving for 43 years in the House of Representatives, in addition to two years in the Senate, the longest period of continuous service of any elected representative in the Caribbean region.

Rogers is the longest serving Kentucky Republican ever elected to federal office.

In West Bengal the communist Left Front is returned to power continuing its record as the world's longest serving elected communist government.

Because North Carolina had a one-term limit for governors at that time, Hodges had the longest continuous tenure in the office until the state constitution was changed and Jim Hunt was elected to a second term in 1980.

Upon retirement, he was one of the longest current serving Members of Parliament and one of the very few who had been elected under both the Progressive Conservative and Liberal banners.

The late Arsenio Lacson ( the first elected Mayor of Manila ) and the late Ramon Bagatsing ( the longest serving Mayor of Manila ), two of the city's legendary leaders, were both from the district of Sampaloc.

He was re-elected in 1981, 1984 and 1988, becoming the third Premier in the history of Nova Scotia to be elected to four consecutive terms, and the fourth longest premier in Nova Scotia.