To be elected the First Reader in one's branch church is one of the highest and most important positions the lay Christian Scientist may aspire to.

In 1964, the Central Committee ousted Khrushchev from power, and elected Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary.

The number of Central Committee meetings rose again when Brezhnev was elected First Secretary, but the number of meetings and their duration steadily decreased during Brezhnev's rule.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

First you have the National Court of Justice, which seats 21 judges elected for a period of 9 years.

By March 1943, the first National Conference of the Communist Party elected Hoxha formally as First Secretary.

In January 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who were not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, convened the First Dáil and established the Irish Republic.

The position of the First Lady is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and receives no salary.

" 299 members represent single-seat constituencies and are elected by a First Past the Post electoral system.

The French National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), on the 4th of February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, abolished slavery by law in France and all its colonies.

* First Jewish player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1956.

In 1774, Middleton was elected as a delegate from South Carolina to the First Continental Congress.

First elected by the ITU Membership to the Directorship in 2010.

Facing little opposition from the fractured Federalist Party, Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over 80 percent of the electoral vote and becoming the last president during the First Party System era of American politics.

* 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.

In 1864 Marx became involved in the International Workingmen's Association ( also known as First International )., to whose General Council he was elected at its inception in 1864.

Bush became the First Lady of Texas when her husband was elected as the Governor of Texas and served as first lady of that state from January 17, 1995, to December 21, 2000.

At the First Congress of Soviets in June, he was elected a member of the first All-Russian Central Executive Committee (" VTsIK ") from the Mezhraiontsy faction.

* 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected the First Secretary of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and all members of the Warsaw Pact, with the notable exception of Romania, invaded the country to halt the reforms.

Also in 2002, Soderbergh was elected First Vice President of the Directors Guild of America.

After the first group of Senators was elected to the First Congress ( 1789 – 1791 ), the Senators were divide into three " classes " as nearly equal in size as possible, as required by this section.

** Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, leading policy proposals, traveling abroad as a State Department representative to 82 nations, advising her husband, and being elected a Senator ( in 2000 ), is the most openly empowered and politically powerful First Lady in American history ; Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno take two of the cabinet's top jobs as United States Secretary of State (# 1 ), and United States Attorney General (# 4 ), respectively.

Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.

The government was a coalition of ZZS, TP ( People's party ), and LPP ( First Party ); the coalition has only 46 out of 100 seats in Latvia's parliament, but was also supported by TSP, the leftist party of national harmony.

After the First World War and re-establishment of Polish independence, the convocation of parliament, under the democratic electoral law of 1918, became an enduring symbol of the new state's wish to demonstrate and establish continuity with the 300 year Polish parliamentary traditions established before the time of the partitions.

Its MPs refused to take their seats at Westminster, instead choosing to sit in the First Dáil parliament in Dublin.

First, it presented a public statement that the preferences of parliament ( the claim of Catherine Grey in the succession crisis ) could not dictate her own policy.

It was also the name of the legislature during France's First Republic and the Consulate, and since 1946 has been the lower house of the French parliament, first under the Fourth Republic, and from 1958, the Fifth Republic.

# First Reading: The bill is introduced to the government, usually by the members of parliament.

The First Dáil Éireann was established in January 1919 as the single chamber parliament of the Irish Republic.

The term was first used to describe those Irish parliamentarians who were elected at the 1918 general election, and who, rather than attending the British House of Commons in London, to which they had been elected, assembled instead in Dublin's Mansion House on 21 January 1919 to create a new Irish parliament: the First Dáil Éireann.

On 8 April 1886, Gladstone introduced the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature, although large imperial issues were to be reserved to the Westminster parliament.

First, a bill is introduced to parliament either by a member of government or, in the case of a private member's bill, by any individual representative.

A prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic Party ( CD, the " Kadets "), Nabokov was elected to Russia's parliament, the First Duma.

He remained as First Commissioner of Works under parliament until the Whigs lost power in 1858.

In January 1919 a Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the provisional Sinn Féin First Dáil proclaimed an Irish Republic, later abolished in 1921 after the Anglo-Irish War under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which agreed on the Partition of Ireland and established the Irish Free State with its parliament the Dáil Éireann ( in the Irish Language ), the ' Assembly of Ireland '.

A proposal to enlarge the tunnels under High Holborn to create new platforms at Holborn station for the CLR and to abandon British Museum station was originally included in a private bill submitted to parliament by the CLR in November 1913, although the First World War prevented any works taking place.

The Sinn Féin triumph in the general election of 1918 ( the coupon election ), winning 73 out of the 105 Irish seats, was followed by the Sinn Féin members ' decision to convene themselves as the First Dáil, a new parliament.

Following the SNP's victory in the 2011 election, which gave the party an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Alex Salmond stated his desire to hold a referendum " in the second half of the parliament " which would place it in 2014 or 2015.

While it had been acceptable prior to the turn of the 20th century for Canadian governors general to involve themselves in political affairs, being, as they were, representatives of the King in his British Council, Byng's tenure as viceroy of Canada was notable in that he became the first to step directly into political matters since the country had gained a degree of autonomy from the United Kingdom following the First World War, denying, as he did, the recommendations of his prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, who sought to have parliament dissolved in order to avoid a vote of non-confidence in his government.

Lord Francis Hervey, fourth son of the second Marquess, represented the family seat in parliament and also served as First Civil Service Commissioner from 1907 to 1909.

The aftermath of the elections the Sinn Féin elected members refused to attend Westminster having instead formed their own parliament Dáil Éireann the Irish for " Assembly of Ireland " which is now known as the First Dáil.

Having returned to England, he entered the new parliament, which met early in 1679, as member for Wootton Bassett ; in November 1679 he was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, and for a few years he was the principal adviser of Charles II.

A proposal to enlarge the tunnels under High Holborn to create new platforms at Holborn station for the CLR and to abandon British Museum station was originally included in a private bill submitted to parliament by the CLR in November 1913, although the First World War prevented any works taking place.

Image: Opening of the first parliament. jpg | Tom Roberts, Opening of the First Parliament, 1901

In 2011, it was announced at the New Zealand First annual convention that if elected to parliament in the 2011 General Election the party would repeal the controversial Crimes ( Substituted Section 59 ) Amendment Act 2007 ( widely known as the Anti-Smacking Legislation ), which a vast majority of New Zealanders rejected in a 2009 citizen-initiated referendum.

Twenty-seven of the newly elected Sinn Féin MPs assembled in Dublin on 21 January 1919 and formed an independent Irish parliament, or First Dáil Èireann of the thirty-two counties.