The fortunes of Conservative Judaism underwent a dramatic turnaround when in 1902, the famed scholar Solomon Schechter, lecturer in Talmud at the University of Cambridge, accepted the invitation to become president of JTS.

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

In a 2001 Torah commentary released on behalf of the Conservative Movement of Judaism, rabbinic scholar Robert Wexler stated: " The most likely assumption we can make is that both Genesis and Gilgamesh drew their material from a common tradition about the flood that existed in Mesopotamia.

Louis Finkelstein ( June 14, 1895, Cincinnati, Ohio – 29 November 1991 ) was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) and Conservative Judaism.

He was a mentor to some famous as well as controversial figures in modern Jewish outreach to other Jews, such as Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, who split with Hutner and became a prominent scholar at Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ).

Conservative legal scholar Robert Bork has called the decision an " abomination ".

Arthur Hertzberg ( June 9, 1921 – April 17, 2006 ) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.

Both the Conservatives and Labour had sent advisers to the United States to aid the rival candidates in the 1992 presidential election, and it emerged that the Conservative government had allowed Home Office press officers to search files for evidence that Clinton had applied for British citizenship to avoid the Vietnam draft while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1969 ; no evidence was found that he had.

In February 2005, Craig Chandler, the CEO of Concerned Christians Canada Inc. suggested on CBC Newsworld that he would be campaigning for the Conservative Party nomination in the next 2006 federal election in Prentice's riding of Calgary North Centre, because of Prentice's pro-choice stance on abortion and his support of same-sex marriage.

Christine McCafferty ( née Livesley ; born 14 October 1945 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Calder Valley from 1997 to 2010, when the seat was won by the Conservative Party candidate, Craig Whittaker, at that year's general election.

In early 2008, Kenney openly supported Progressive Conservative candidate Jonathan Denis, who later became the MLA for Calgary-Egmont, defeating Liberal Cathie Williams and the independent candidate, Craig Chandler, by a large margin.

Samuel Grandy, running in Durham East riding in Ontario, won 1, 685 of the 3, 431 votes cast ( 49. 11 % of the popular votes ), losing narrowly to Conservative Party candidate Thomas Dixon Craig, who collected 1, 746 votes.

Several months later, on 19 October 1972, Craig addressed a meeting of the right wing Conservative Monday Club during which he claimed he could mobilise 80, 000 men " who are prepared to come out and shoot and kill.

Following the decline and subsequent disbanding of the Kiwi and Family Parties, the Kiwi Party announced that its candidates would be joining and standing for the Conservative Party of New Zealand, formed by property manager Colin Craig in 2011.

While Craig denies that the Conservative Party is primarily religious social conservative in orientation, he has acknowledged that he is an evangelical Baptist, albeit one that does not attend church.

* Represented on Cardiff Council since 2004 by Jonathan Burns, Craig Piper, Richard Foley and Robert Smith ; all elected as members of the Welsh Conservative Party.

Craig offered to withdraw if the Progressive councillor would repudiate that party's policy on council house rents, and to sit as a Conservative if the party split up ; the offer was rejected.

In September 1967 Craig was selected as official Conservative candidate for Gorbals ward in a byelection ; he was one of seven candidates and attempted to stand out by distributing on the eve of poll 5, 000 ' wage packets ' containing an appeal to vote for him.

At the West Sussex County Council election in 1981, Craig was elected as a Conservative councillor in Chichester West division, while his wife Phyllis won Chichester South division.

Craig and the other sitting councillors considered this amounted to deselection and formed the ' Association of Conservative Councillors ' which would raise funds for their election expenses.

The Association of Conservative Councillors chose Craig as its election agent and declared its intention to nominate candidates against those of the Conservative Association.

The resignation of a Liberal councillor led to a by-election for Chichester District Council in Chichester West ward in June 1982 ; Phyllis Craig was nominated in opposition to the official Conservative.

Craig and his wife had their annual subscriptions returned by the Conservative Association in January 1983, which he denounced as " a back-door method of expulsion " and " a very nasty way of getting rid of someone.

Craig and his wife stood as Independent Conservative candidates for Chichester District Council in the 1983 council elections, but were not successful.

He was unsuccessful, losing to Progressive Conservative Craig Stewart by over 3, 500 votes.

Among the most notable of these endorsements came from Andrew Sullivan and Paul Craig Roberts, while a series of editorials in Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative magazine made a conservative case for several candidates, with Scott McConnell formally endorsing Kerry, and Justin Raimondo giving the nod to independent Ralph Nader.

Its current MLA is Alison Redford, a Progressive Conservative, who defeated incumbent Liberal candidate Craig Cheffins in the 2008 Alberta general election.

Since 1971 the riding has been held by 4 MLAs, all of them Progressive Conservative except Craig Cheffins, who represented the riding from the 2007 by-election to the 2008 general election.

# William Craig, Conservative ( 1867-1874 )

Pentyrch is represented by Conservative councillor Craig Williams on Cardiff Council but it is represented by the Labour Party in the Houses of Commons and the National Assembly.

Craig was initially Conservative, and endorsed the Manitoba Conservative Party in the 1915 election on the grounds that it was more supportive of higher education than was the Manitoba Liberal Party.

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He defeated the sitting Conservative incumbent candidate, Sir Arthur Evans, by 17, 489 votes to 11, 545.

While the party embarked on a wide-ranging review of its priorities and goals, Gwynfor Evans fought a successful campaign ( including the threat of a hunger strike ) to oblige the Conservative government to fulfill its promise to establish S4C, a Welsh-language television station.

In 1980, the former president of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans, threatened to go on hunger strike if the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher didn't honour its commitment to provide a Welsh-language TV service.

* First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means: Nigel Evans ( Conservative )

In the 2010 election, Morgan polled 17, 666 votes to the Conservative candidate ( Jonathan Evans )' s 17, 860 votes, losing by only 194 votes.

Jonathan Peter Evans FRSA ( born 2 June 1950 ) is a Welsh solicitor and Conservative Party politician.

* Jonathan Evans MP Conservative Party profile

* Jonathan Evans MP Welsh Conservative Party profile

His Employment Opportunities Bill, which would, according to Chope, introduce more freedom to the job market and decrease unemployment, was backed by ten other Conservative MPs at the first reading, among them Edward Leigh, David Wilshire, Nigel Evans, Bill Cash and Peter Bone.

With the Conservative Party not winning a single seat in Wales at the 1997 general election, Evans was drafted onto the frontbench by John Major as a spokesman on Welsh Affairs.

He had publicly criticised the government for not having a dedicated Secretary of State for Wales in a cabinet post, so when the new Conservative leader Michael Howard decided to take the role outside of the Shadow Cabinet, Evans chose to return to the backbenches.

Johnson won her seat, Welwyn Hatfield, a traditional Conservative strong hold, following a statement made by her opponent, David Evans, which made national newspaper headlines.

Jeremy Roger Evans ( born 1964 ) is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge.

Evans was elected to Waltham Forest council in 1990 and was the opposition spokesman on audit ( 1991 ), housing ( 1992 ), deputy leader ( 1993 ) and the leader of the Conservative group 1994 – 1998.

* David Evans ( British politician ) ( 1935 – 2008 ), British businessman and Conservative politician, MP 1987 – 1997

The four MEPs for the area are Jill Evans ( Plaid Cymru ), John Bufton ( UKIP ), Kay Swinburne ( Conservative ) and Derek Vaughan ( Labour ).

The ward is served by three councillors, all of whom are Conservative ; Bill Evans, Nigel Dawkins and Timothy Huxtable.

The main British television channels, particularly the BBC and ITV, gave the speech fairly limited coverage, for which they faced some criticism from Conservative MPs and " a handful of viewers "; Conservative MP Nigel Evans stated that their lack of coverage rendered YouTube the ' ultimate in public service broadcasting '.

It is represented in Parliament by The Conservative Party MP Jonathan Evans, who has held the seat since 2010.

* Represented in the British House of Commons since 2010 by Jonathan Evans, Member of Parliament ( Conservative, Cardiff North ).

In the House of Commons Heath is represented by Jonathan Evans MP of the Conservative Party.

Evans was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1922, leading the Conservative party list in Winnipeg ( which elected ten MLAs through preferential balloting ).