* 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1895 )

But he was soon back at sea and attracted the attention of Alexander Spotswood, the Governor of Virginia.

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

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

The Governor of South Australia, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, who was in England at the time, expressed his concern to British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs James Henry Thomas that this would cause a significant impact on trade between the nations.

* Lamar Alexander, former Governor of Tennessee

File: Lamar Alexander 2. jpg | Former Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

King ( back left ) with ( counterclockwise from King ) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone and Winston Churchill during the Quebec conference in 1943.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

* July – Cary's Rebellion: Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spottswood of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal marines to assist Governor Hyde.

* November 22 – Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor Alexander Spottswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina, where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in Ocracoke Inlet.

In 1841, Hudson Bay Company Governor George Simpson ordered Alexander Ross to organize a party of Red River settlers to emigrate and occupy the land for Britain.

It was first used in the flags of Alexander Ypsilantis, and was chosen as the official emblem of the Provisional Government ( 1828 – 1832 ) by Governor John Capodistria, who also named the first modern Greek currency " phoenix ".

Alexander Abramov, became the first Governor of the Military Okrug which the Russians established along the course of the Zeravshan River, with Samarkand as the administrative centre.

Nearby stood the military barracks and the country houses ( dacha ) of the city's wealthy residents, including that of the Duc de Richelieu, appointed by Tsar Alexander I as Governor of Odessa in 1803.

He abolished taxes for a year, rode unarmed through the streets and bazaars meeting common people, and appointed himself " Military Governor of Tashkent ", recommending to Tsar Alexander II that the city be made an independent khanate under Russian protection.

Sir Alexander Ball led Maltese insurgents against the French in the 1798 uprising, and went on to become the first British Governor of Malta.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

In October 1917, City Council of Częstochowa demanded permission to destroy the monument of Tsar Alexander II, to which General Governor of Warsaw Hans Hartwig von Beseler agreed.

Most of them settled in West Germany, some ended up in East Germany and a significant minority emigrated to Canada starting in 1948 with the support of Canadian Governor General The Earl Alexander of Tunis, who had known many Baltic Germans during his time that he commanded the Baltic German Landeswehr.

* 1732 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( d. 1808 )

* 1724 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, English soldier and politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1808 )

* November 13 – John Dickinson, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( d. 1808 )

* September 3 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec ( d. 1808 )

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

It was organized in 1809 and named for William H. Cabell, the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808.

In 1808, another new Virginia county was named for Governor Nelson.

The town was set off and incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on March 3, 1808, named in honor of former Governor Thomas Pownall, who had died three years before.

Moore took command of the British forces in the Iberian peninsula following the recall of Harry Burrard of Lymington ( 1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813 ), Hew Dalrymple ( 1750 – 1830 ), Governor of Gibraltar from November 1806 to August 1808, and Arthur Wellesley ( 1769 – 1852 ), later Duke of Wellington, who all faced an inquiry over the Convention of Cintra on the French troops ' evacuation from Portugal.

In 1791, Chew was appointed by Pennsylvania ’ s first Governor and the former President of the Continental Congress, Thomas Mifflin, to preside as the President over Pennsylvania's first High Court of Errors and Appeals, a position which he retired from in 1808.

Governor 1777, President NY Constitutional Convention 1788, Governor 1801, Vice-President of United States 1804, re-elected 1808 – 1812, died 1812 buried Congressional Cemetery Washington D. C.

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

Captain Philip Gidley King RN ( 23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808 ) was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles.

General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron GCB ( 20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888 ) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), commanded troops during part of the New Zealand Land Wars and was Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1868 to 1875.

The first task Macquarie had to tackle was to restore orderly, lawful government and discipline in the colony following the Rum Rebellion of 1808 against Governor William Bligh.

A propaganda cartoon of the arrest of Governor William Bligh during the Rum Rebellion of 1808.

In 1808 these conflicts came to open rebellion, with the Rum Rebellion, in which the Rum Corps ousted Governor William Bligh ( known from the mutiny on the Bounty ).

In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.

As a teenager, Mariano, his nephew Juan Bautista Alvarado ( 1809 – 1882 ), and José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ) received special instruction from Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá.

* Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester ( 1724 – 1808 ), Irish soldier and early Governor of Canada