* 1902 – Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1983 )

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

* William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ), Prominent Leader and Governor of the Plymouth colony, in office 1621 – 1633, 1635 – 1636, 1637 – 1638, 1639 – 1644, 1645 – 1657

* May 9 – William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony ( b. 1590 )

He regularly preached and according to Governor Bradford, " his teachings were well approved.

Governor Carver died the same year and the responsibility of upholding the treaty fell to his successor, William Bradford.

Governor William Bradford in 1648 referred to synods of a separatist church as " classical meetings " in his Dialogue, a report of a meeting between New-England-born " young men " and " ancient men " from Holland and England.

Among younger men under Owen's leadership and influence include: Benjamin Shumard Franklin, for whom the Shumard oak is named, was appointed state geologist of Texas by Governor Hardin R. Runnels ; Amos Henry Worthen was the second state geologist of Illinois and the first curator of the Illinois State Museum ; and Fielding Bradford Meek became the first full-time paleontologist in lier of salary at the Smithsonian Institution.

* Augustus Bradford, 32nd Governor of Maryland, 1862 – 1866.

* William Bradford ( Plymouth soldier ) ( 1624 – 1703 ), son of Governor Bradford, military commander of Plymouth during King Philip's War

In 1685, the almanac that Bradford printed for Atkins received immediate attention, especially from Pennsylvania Governor William Penn who took offense at a reference to him.

She was born October 27, 1904, in Fremont, Nebraska, the daughter of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendant of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

He was born at Plympton, Massachusetts to Lt. Samuel Bradford and Sarah Gray, and was the great-great-grandson of the William Bradford who had been Governor of the Plymouth Colony.

The attack was stopped when Lieutenant Governor William Bradford rowed out to the Rose to negotiate a cease-fire, but then a second attack took place on May 25, 1778.

At one time, Governor John A. Volpe accepted the donation of the Endicott Estate in Dedham from the heirs of Henry Bradford Endicott.

The residence of Governor Bradford was raided by the natives before the Wampanoags were defeated.

Hatfield was founded in 1660 on land granted to General Daniel Dennison and Governor William Bradford.

In a subsequent mission for Governor William Bradford that summer, Tisquantum was captured by Wampanoag while gathering intelligence on the renegade sagamore, Corbitant, at the village of Nemasket ( site of present-day Middleborough, Massachusetts.

Governor William Bradford, in Bradford's History of the English Settlement, wrote regarding Tisquantum's death:

* Bradford, W. Governor William Bradford's Letter Book.

* Mehmed Çelebi, Governor of Anatolia ( Amasya ) and later as Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I Çelebi, ( 1389 – 1421 )-son of Devlet Hatun

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

Subsequently, the Jamaican governor ratified a legislature consisting of eight magistrates appointed by the Governor of Jamaica and 10 ( later increased to 27 ) elected representatives.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

Gerry later became the ninth Governor of Massachusetts.

The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories.

Then, during a later visit to Alberta, the Governor General was admitted to the Blackfoot tribe as Chief Eagle Head.

British Governor Raffles, who the later founded the city of Singapore, ruled the colony the following 10 years of the British interregnum ( 1806 – 1816 ).

Posthumus later went on to be elected State Senator, Senate Majority Leader and Lieutenant Governor.

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

The Governor of Georgia, Herman Talmadge, later announced that the state would tighten regulations for licensing taxi drivers.

He was held for twelve months in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Tacna Regiment, then at the Military Academy ; later he was sent for eight months to a political prison on Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and finally to the concentration camp of Ritoque, until international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, then Governor of the city of Caracas in Venezuela, resulted in the sudden release of Letelier on the condition that he immediately leave Chile.

Governor Pedrarias began building intercontinental and trans-isthmian portage routes, such as the " Camino Real " and " Camino de Cruces ", linking Panama City and the Pacific with Nombre de Dios ( and later with “ Portobelo ”) and the Atlantic, making possible the establishment of a trans-atlantic system of Treasure Fleets and trade.

They also claimed that, at the request of Governor Aguinagalde, the radio programs hosted by Bottino and Sanchez were censored and later cancelled because of their refusal to stop their criticism of the governor.

In 1980, Romero Barcelo was reelected Governor by a controversial 0. 2 % margin, but lost control of the Senate and, a year later, the House of Representatives to the PDP.

The first German Governor, Wilhelm Solf, later went on to become Secretary for the Colonies of Imperial Germany.

But a year later, newly-elected Governor Evan Mecham rescinded the executive order on the grounds that the holiday had been illegally created.

Shortly thereafter, Bachiler was excommunicated by the Hampton church on unfounded charges of " scandal ", but protested to Governor Winthrop and was later reinstated.

* Charles Edison ( 1890 – 1969 ), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey.

The county in which Toledo sat would, later in 1835, be named after incumbent Governor Robert Lucas, a move that further exacerbated the growing tensions with Michigan.

A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Indiana Democratic Party by stumping across the state for other candidates and organizing party rallies that later helped him win election as the 27th Governor of Indiana.

He received a full pardon from Governor John A. Dix six years later.

The office of Governor of West Pakistan was a largely ceremonial position but later Governors wielded some executive powers as well.

* November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.

* November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat ( just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase ).