Elected unanimously as the first President of the United States in 1789, he attempted to bring rival factions together to unify the nation.

Elected a fellow of Trinity in 1884, Whitehead would teach and write mathematics at the college until 1910, spending the 1890s writing his Treatise on Universal Algebra ( 1898 ), and the 1900s collaborating with his former pupil, Russell, on the first edition of Principia Mathematica.

The current occupants of these offices are District 1's Eric Robinson ( R ), District 2's Jamie Brown Bennett ( R )- Elected April 3, 2012, as the first female Commissioner and youngest in County History, District 3's Vance Posey ( D ) and District 4's Sammy Lewis Robinson ( D ).

Elected by the council members, the president of the Common Council is first in the line of succession should the mayor not finish his or her term of office.

On November 8, 2005, the Town of Ulster Elected Nicky B. Woerner as the youngest town supervisor in New York State history ( age 21 ) and elected the first Democratic Town Board in the town's 125 year history.

Elected Speaker for the first time in 1983, Lewis became the first to hold that office for five terms.

Elected deputy from Paris to the Estates-General ( 12 May 1789 ), he was elected inaugural president of the National Assembly ( 17 June 1789 ), and led the famous proceedings in the Tennis Court ( 20 June ), being the first to take the Tennis Court Oath.

Elected in 2008 and reelected in 2012, Johnson is the first African American and Sacramento native to serve in that office.

Named the Ahwahnee Principles ( after Yosemite National Park's Ahwahnee Hotel ), the commission presented the principles to about one hundred government officials in the fall of 1991, at its first Yosemite Conference for Local Elected Officials.

Elected on an anti-corruption platform, one of President Kibaki's first acts a president was to appoint John Githongo, a prominent anti-corruption activist, as Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics, reporting directly to him.

Elected as Governor in 1891, Colcord strengthened the state's economy and also signed the state's first admissions day bill.

Elected for a six-year term from 1 July 2011, Madigan is the first Senator to be elected as a federal member of a party under the name of " Democratic Labor Party " since the 1970 Senate-only election.

Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office on Jan 1, 1968, he was the first African American mayor of a major U. S. city.

Elected to play first base on his fifth All-Star team, Killebrew became the first player in All-Star game history to be elected at three different positions, having previously been selected to play third base ( 1959 and 1961 ) and left field ( 1963 and 1964 ).

Elected by his teammates the first African American to captain an Ivy League football team.

* 351 BC: Elected: first non-patrician Dictator

* 351 BC: Elected: first non-patrician censor

* 337 BC: Elected the first non-patrician Praetor ( Q. Publilius Philo ).

Elected deputy to the Assembly for the départment of Loiret, he gave his first speech in January 1792.

Elected to the House in 1976, he won a coveted seat on the House Appropriations Committee in his first term.

* Elected delegates to the first Continental Congress.

Elected to the Philippine Senate from 1957 to 1963, he also was the first Filipino film actor who was able to parlay his fame into a substantial political career.

Elected as the first foreign member of the Geological Society of London

Elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, Bennett returned to the provincial scene to again lead the Alberta Tories in the 1913 provincial election, but kept his federal seat in Ottawa when his Tories failed to take power in the province ; such practice was later forbidden.

Elected to Parliament in this election were incumbents Louis Plamondon, André Bellavance, Maria Mourani and rookie MP Jean-François Fortin.

** Phil Baldwin ( Elected 2000-seat up for election 2014 )

** Douglas F. Crane ( Elected 2004-seat up for election 2012 )

** Benj Thomas ( Elected 2006-seat up for election 2014 )

His election received attention in the Philadelphia press at the time with the somewhat inaccurate lead, " Japanese Elected Mayor of American City for the First Time in History.

Elected to Parliament in the Attlee landslide at the 1945 general election, Thomas held Cardiff Central between 1945 and 1950 and Cardiff West between 1950 and his retirement from the Commons at the 1983 general election.

Elected to the Council of States in 1975, he sat is this chamber of the Federal Parliament until his election to the Federal Council in 1977.

Elected to the National Assembly of Quebec, Jean Lesage's Liberal Party won the 1960 Quebec general election, campaigning with the slogan of C ’ est le temps que ça change ( It ’ s time things changed ) and putting an end to the long reign of the Union nationale that had governed Quebec under Maurice Duplessis since 1935 ( except for the period from 1940 to 1944 ).

Elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1952, he became provincial Liberal leader in 1958 and led his party to victory in 1960, 1963 and 1967 before being defeated by Richard Hatfield's Conservatives in the 1970 election.

Elected to the First Dáil in the 1918 general election for Dublin Clontarf, he was named Minister for Defence in the new ( alternative ) government and later Assistant Minister for Defence.

In the Board of Directors election, one President-Elect, three Vice Presidents, and six Elected Board Members are elected each year.

Elected to the Lower House by his constituents in the city of Buenos Aires in 1991, he was again returned to the Senate in a 1992 special election, and de la Rúa became increasingly thought of as presidential timber in the press.

Elected at the 2001 federal election on a primary vote of 4. 36 percent with One Nation and micro-party preferences, she failed to gain re-election at the 2007 federal election, despite an increase in the Green primary vote to 8. 43 percent, due to insufficient preferences.

Elected in a by-election in 2002, he lost his seat in the 2004 election to Liberal candidate Scott Simms, running as the member for Bonavista — Exploits.

Elected in a special election after Packwood's resignation, Wyden won a full term in 1998 and re-election in 2004.

Elected in 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned himself with the Girondists, but after his election to the National Convention on 6 September 1792, he sided with the Montagnards.

Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in a partial election in 1818, he was re-elected until 1830 and supported the Parti canadien.

Elected to a seat in the National Assembly in the February 2011 parliamentary election, Kabadi was then elected as President of the National Assembly in June 2011.

Elected deputy again in 1869, he joined the opposition to the Second Empire, and in 1871 bent all his efforts to the election of Thiers as President of the Republic, acting afterwards as his secretary.

Elected as the party leader in January, Bourassa went on to win the April 29, 1970 general election, and his tenure as Premier of Quebec became closely linked to hydroelectric development in general and with the James Bay project in particular.

Elected Mayor of Toulouse in 2001, he supported Jacques Chirac in the two rounds of the 2002 presidential election, in spite of the candidacy of François Bayrou.