The office of Governor was established by the first New York State Constitution in 1777 to coincide with the calendar year.

* Mariano Osorio, Governor of Chile ( b. 1777 )

The Empress Maria Theresa, built the Royal Villa of Monza for his son Ferdinand, Governor of Milan ( 1777 – 1780 ).

In 1777, Henry Hamilton, the British Lieutenant Governor of Canada, began to recruit American Indian war parties to raid the settlements in Kentucky.

It was named for Thomas Burke, a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1781 and Governor of North Carolina from 1781 to 1782.

The first Governor chosen to break this chain of Colonial Governors was Thomas Johnson ( 1732 – 1819 ), who took office on March 21, 1777.

From 1777 to 1870, the Governor resided in Jennings House in Annapolis.

In February 1777, John McKinley was elected the first President of Delaware ( a title later renamed " Governor ").

He became the first elected Governor of New York in 1777, and was re-elected five times, serving until 1795.

In 1777, the ruler of Champasak, which was at that time an independent principality bordering on the Thai eastern frontier, supported the Governor of Nangrong, who had rebelled against the Thai king.

During the revolutionary war — on April 25, 1777 a 1, 850 strong British force under the command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon landed on Compo Beach to demolish the Continental Army ’ s military supplies in Danbury.

The Governor Belcher House dates from 1777, replacing the earlier home destroyed in fire in 1776, and it is privately owned on Governor Belcher Lane in East Milton.

Under the new constitution, the state Legislature (" General Assembly ") re-elected him as the first Governor in April 1777.

William Hawkins ( October 20, 1777 – May 17, 1819 ) was the 17th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1811 to 1814.

It was in accordance with such precise planning — specified in the Law of the Indies — that Governor Neve founded the pueblo of San Jose de Guadalupe, California's first municipality, on the great plain of Santa Clara on 29 November 1777.

Sir Richard Downes Jackson KCB ( 1777 – June 9, 1845 ) was Administrator of Canada West and Canada East ( 1841 – 1842 ) until the arrival of Sir Charles Bagot who took the position of Governor General of the Province of Canada.

Governor Livingston replaced him in February, 1777 for failing to attend court sessions.

Nathaniel Pitcher ( November 30, 1777 – May 25, 1836 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828.

The British had originally sought to keep American Indians out of the war, but in 1777 Lieutenant Governor Hamilton received instructions to recruit and arm Indian war parties to raid the Kentucky settlements, opening a western front in the war with the rebel colonists.

Because the Kentucky settlers lacked the authority, manpower, and supplies to launch the expedition themselves, in October 1777 Clark traveled to Williamsburg via the Wilderness Road to meet with Governor Henry, joining along the way a party of about 100 settlers who were leaving Kentucky because of the Indian raids.

Clark presented his plan to Governor Henry on December 10, 1777.

He served Georgia as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777 and as the 14th Governor of Georgia in 1781.

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

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In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth with a degree in economics in 1930.

When Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder objected, he was fired by President Pierce, a Doughface.

* 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia ( d. 1883 )

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

* George Clinton ( vice president ) ( 1739 – 1812 ), Vice President of the United States and Governor of New York

In December 2000, her husband resigned as Governor of Texas to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States in January 2001.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

Mauritius became a republic on 12 March 1992, with the last Governor General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, as interim President.

* 1996 – U. S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

* 1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

* 1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded.

* 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 33rd Governor of New York, 25th Vice President of the United States, 26th President of the United States, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1919 )

* 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.

Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that " goodness overcame evil ".

The House of Delegates was elected directly by the voters ( male, propertied ) and the equivalent to the Senate was the Cabinet appointed by the Governor and by the President of the United States.