On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

Davis resigned his house seat in June and raised a volunteer regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, becoming its colonel.

He had not served a year when he resigned ( in September 1851 ) to run for the governorship of Mississippi on the issue of the Compromise of 1850, which Davis opposed.

Davis had expected this but waited until he received official notification ; then on January 21, the day Davis called " the saddest day of my life ", he delivered a farewell address to the United States Senate, resigned and returned to Mississippi.

In late 1863, Watts resigned as Attorney General to take office as the Governor of Alabama, and George Davis of North Carolina took his place.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

Davis, however, was elected to the US Senate from Illinois, resigned from the Court and turned down the commission appointment.

Faced with the disapproval and resistance of the committee, Davis resigned, and was succeeded by Jean Hersholt, who implemented the changes she had suggested.

To compensate for the loss of Davis, the Warriors signed Corey Maggette and Ronny Turiaf, then resigned Monta Ellis and Andris Biedriņš to long-term contracts.

Lord Carnarvon received in 1914 the concession to dig in the Valley of the Kings, in replacement of Theodore Davis who had resigned.

McEnroe resigned in November 2000 after 14 months as captain, citing frustration with the Davis Cup schedule and format as two of his primary reasons.

Jefferson Davis resigned from the US Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded.

Foote served in the Senate from March 4, 1847, until January 8, 1852, when he resigned to become governor after defeating Jefferson Davis in the election of 1851.

In April 2010, Smitherman's campaign manager, Jeff Bangs, resigned and was replaced by Bruce Davis, chair of the Toronto District School Board and a veteran of local politics.

The opposition parties had also undergone leadership changes ; Nixon and Lewis, who had posed a strong challenge to Davis, resigned after the 1975 and 1977 elections, respectively.

After only 8 years as president of Northwest, Dennis A. Davis resigned from his post.

Justice David Davis, however, had resigned from the Supreme Court in January 1877 after being selected as a United States Senator by the Illinois General Assembly.

In April, he resigned from the Chilean Davis Cup team, citing a violation of a confidentiality agreement, after the local tennis federation disclosed the amount of money won by the players at the tie against Australia.

In April 1874, Davis won a by-election to the provincial legislature for the riding of Winnipeg & St. Johns ( replacing Smith, who had resigned ).

Davis resigned as Premier in 1878, and subsequently became a successful businessman in Chicago.

Pemberton resigned as a general officer on May 9, 1864, and Davis offered him a commission as a lieutenant colonel of artillery three days later, which he accepted, a testimonial of his loyalty to the South and the Confederate cause.

Since 1919 was an election year, Davis resigned from the mayorship and went on to successfully campaign for governor of Ohio.

Defeated by John Gill Shorter in an 1861 bid for governor, Watts organized the Seventeenth Alabama Regiment, but resigned later to become attorney general in President Jefferson Davis ' cabinet.

In fact, the whole generation of the founding fathers of bop -- Gillespie, Monk, Davis, Blakey, and the rest -- are just now at a considerable discount.

But if all alternatives should be clearly blocked off, it can be expected the Davis administration will take steps to trim spending at the spring session of the state Legislature.

An exhibition of Evelyn Cibula's paintings will open with a reception Nov. 5 at the Evanston Community center, 828 Davis St..

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.

After this Confederate defeat at the Battle of Mill Springs, Davis sent Johnston a brigade and a few other scattered reinforcements, and he sent Gen. P. G. T.

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About the importance of making employment opportunities inclusive, Shirley Davis, director of global diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management, said:

Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

Also, as in the previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis complaining about his direct superior.

In 1954, Martin Davis programmed Presburger's algorithm for a JOHNNIAC vacuum tube computer at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

Abergavenny Hockey Club, formed in 1897, currently compete in the Davis Woods hockey league and play at the Old Hereford Road ground.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

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William Davis Miners ' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies.

Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.

This animal, initially given the name the Elmendorf Beast, was later determined by DNA assay conducted at University of California, Davis to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange.

Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".

Corn capital at the Litchfield Villa Prospect Park ( Brooklyn ) ( Alexander Jackson Davis | A. J.

It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the doctorate-granting Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York School of Law, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

On May 5, 1993, Gregory M. Herek, associate research psychologist at the University of California at Davis and an authority on public attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on behalf of several professional associations.