Washington was appointed by Governor Dinwiddie as one of the four district adjutants in February 1753, with the rank of major in the Virginia militia.

Governor Dinwiddie received orders from the British government to warn the French of British claims, and sent Major Washington in late 1753 to deliver a letter informing the French of those claims and asking them to leave.

Governor Dinwiddie sent Washington back to the Ohio Country to protect an Ohio Company group building a fort at present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but before he reached the area, a French force drove out the company's crew and began construction of Fort Duquesne.

In 1754, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie had promised land bounties to the soldiers and officers who volunteered to serve during the French and Indian War.

Randolph left for London, over the objections of Governor Dinwiddie, and was replaced for a short time as attorney general.

Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia was an investor in the Ohio Company, which stood to lose money if the French held their claim.

The plan to occupy the strategic forks was formed by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie with the advice of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who Dinwiddie had sent on a mission to warn French commanders in late 1753, and who had made a military assessment of the site.

The county is named for Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751 – 58.

Frazier settled his family on the location, and in 1753 Christopher Gist and General George Washington met with Fraser while delivering messages from Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to French commanders in the Pittsburgh region.

In December 1753, at age 21, Washington was asked by Governor Dinwiddie to carry a British ultimatum to the French Canadians on the Ohio frontier.

In the same year he wrote to Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia as follows: " The people are all leaving the section around Frankfort in fear of the Indians and fear that in a short time it will be as desolate as all Hampshire County.

In a later letter to Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie, Washington said: " The men I hired to bring intelligence from the South Branch returned last night with letters from Captain Ashby and other parties there.

Alarmed at these French incursions in the Ohio Valley, Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia sent Major George Washington to warn the French to withdraw.

The Ohio Company was composed of Virginians, including Thomas Lee as president, Nathaniel Chapman as treasurer ( 1709 – 1760 ), John Mercer as the company's secretary and general counsel, John's son George Mercer as the company's agent to England, two of George Washington's brothers, Lawrence Washington ( who succeeded to the management upon the death of Lee ) and Augustine Washington, Jr., as well as Englishmen, including the Duke of Bedford, Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie, and John Hanbury, a wealthy London merchant.

Robert Dinwiddie ( 1693 – 27 July 1770 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758, first under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, and then, from July 1756 to January 1758, as deputy for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.

Governor Robert Dinwiddie had promised bounty land to the men of the Washington's Virginia Regiment for their service in the French and Indian War.

At the end of May, He and Montour were in Winchester when Governor Dinwiddie commissioned them as captains under Col. Washington.

Governor Dinwiddie to ask the French to leave the Ohio region, and he met with Iroquois leaders at Logstown, whilst there Washington failed to pay his respects to Queen Aliquippa.

Governor Dinwiddie was held.

Virginia colonial Colonel George Washington was sent by Governor Dinwiddie to travel from Williamsburg to Fort LeBeouf in the Ohio Territory ( a territory claimed by several of the British colonies, including Virginia ) as an emissary in December of 1753, to deliver a letter.

Washington returned to Williamsburg and informed Governor Dinwiddie that the French refused to leave.

In March 1754, Governor Dinwiddie sent Washington back to the frontier with orders to " act on the, but in Case any Attempts are made to obstruct the Works or interrupt our by any Persons whatsoever, You are to restrain all such Offenders, & in Case of resistance to make Prisoners of or kill & destroy them ".

On the 17th, Washington delivered his report of the battles to Governor Dinwiddie, expecting a rebuke, but Washington instead received a vote of thanks from the House of Burgesses and Dinwiddie blamed the defeat not on Washington but on poor supply and the refusal of aid by the other colonies.

His services were rewarded in 1498 when Maximilian bestowed upon him the title of Hereditary Governor ( potestat ) of Friesland, but he had to make good his claim by force of arms.

He was rewarded with large estates in northern England, and appointed as Governor of the North, becoming the richest and most powerful noble in England.

On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians ' efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephens signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which turned the campus into the Southern Branch of the University of California and added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science .< ref >

Preservationists ' efforts were rewarded on April 30, 1885, when Governor David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park.

He was rewarded for his services by the post of Governor of the Fort at Plymouth, which he held for many years.

They arrived in January, and were both rewarded with large land grants by Governor Brisbane.

Wang was rewarded by being appointed as Civil Governor of Fengtian province while remaining Director of the Bureau of Finance.

For their exploration efforts Bass and Flinders were rewarded with land grants in this area by Governor John Hunter.

He was rewarded with the title of Governor of Berwick and Holy Island.

The clan was an ally of the Ashikaga shogunate against the ( Imperial ) Southern Court during the wars of the Nanboku-chō period, and was rewarded by the shogunate with the hereditary position of shugo ( Governor ) of the provinces of Yamashiro, Kii, Kawachi, Etchu, and Noto, at the end of the 14th century.

He petitioned the new Governor, John Hunter for assistance and an increase in salary but was rewarded only by appointment as Civil Magistrate in New South Wales.

For their exploration efforts Bass and Flinders were rewarded with land grants in this area by Governor Hunter.

Ge Ti ’ s administrative skills were eventually rewarded with a promotion, and he died while in office, serving as the Governor of Shaoling in modern Hunan province, an area of relatively modest size.

Because Governor James Glen stepped in to bring peace between the Creek and Cherokee, the Cherokee rewarded him by granting South Carolina a few thousand acres of land near their major Lower Town of Keowee.

* Edwin Washington Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, USA

Governor Norborne Berkeley finally fulfilled Dinwiddie's promise in 1769 – 1770, with Washington subsequently receiving title to near where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, in what is now western West Virginia.

The former Governor of Washington State, Gary Locke, is featured on the backing vocals of " Volcano " ( Live ) Year Super Bonus Special Anniversary Edition.

* 1914 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington ( d. 1994 )

He contacted the state, and New York Governor Washington Hunt took up the case, appointing Henry Northup as his legal agent.

With the aid of his advocate in Washington, DC, Elihu B. Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel by Governor Richard Yates on June 14, 1861, and put in charge of the unruly Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment.

With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, incumbent Vice President John Adams from Massachusetts became a candidate for the presidency on the Federalist Party ticket with former Governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina as the next most popular Federalist.

Others placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Hiram Johnson of California, and Miles Poindexter of Washington, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.

He was a delegate to the Peace conference of 1861 in Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey, as a Republican, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.

* Edward Selig Salomon ( 1836 – 1913 ), General in the American Civil War and Governor of Washington Territory ( 1870 – 1872 )

* LaFayette Fayette McMullen ( 1805-1880 ), American politician and banker ; Virginia state senator, member of both the U. S. and Confederate House of Representatives, and Territorial Governor of Washington

European-American settlers organized Washington County in Tombigbee District by proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sargent of Mississippi Territories on June 4, 1800.

On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor Christine Gregoire signed HB 1598.

Hence Dino Rossi was the clear winner 65 % to Governor Christine Gregoire's 35 %; Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers received 78. 1 % of the county's vote ; Sam Reed received 74. 64 % for Washington state Secretary of State ; and Rob McKenna received 75. 43 % for Attorney General.

Being one of the first counties organized, it was created on April 24, 1854, by the newly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor Isaac Stevens.

The Governor of Virginia, as well as the young military commander George Washington, met in the town with their Iroquois allies ( called the " Half-Kings "), to coordinate maneuvers against the French and their Native American allies during the French and Indian War.

Then-Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans said the county was not welcome in the state of Washington.

In 1931, a monument was established at the Union County border with Union Parish, Louisiana, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor George Washington Donaghey ( 1856 – 1937 ), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area before he moved as a teenager to Conway, Arkansas.

In 1931, a monument was established at the Union Parish border with Union County, Arkansas, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor George Washington Donaghey ( 1856 – 1937 ), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area before he moved as a teenager to Conway, Arkansas.

However, since at least 2000, The Washington Post has occasionally endorsed Republican politicians, such as Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich.