* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

Later, George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop the same invisible point, because he was Governor of Texas prior to his presidency ( Trudeau accused him of being “ all hat and no cattle ”, reiterating the characterization of Bush by columnist Molly Ivins ).

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Dalhousie was founded as a result of the desires of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to establish a non-denominational college in Halifax.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

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Some of these supposed Tories protested to New York Governor George Clinton that they were actually dispossessed Yorkers.

Allen wrote another pamphlet in response, entitled An Address to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont ; with Remarks on a Proclamation under the Hand of his Excellency George Clinton, Esq ; Governor of the State of New York.

In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.

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

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

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

Gosford was named in 1839 after Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford – a friend of the then Governor George Gipps.

In a 9 March 2006 press release, HBC announced that Zucker would replace George Heller as the new Governor and CEO, to become the first US citizen to lead the company.

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.

* 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school.

* 1945 – George Pataki, American politician, 53rd Governor of New York

* 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois ' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

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

* Former Governor George Wallace of Alabama

** Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.

* January 29 – Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1899 )

* August 25 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

** Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.

Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace ( 1996 )

Wallace served as Governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting.

The ALP did endorse incumbent Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti who lost narrowly to Dewey's running mate Thomas W. Wallace.

Following the shooting of a man after a civil rights rally, the leaders decided to march to Montgomery to petition Governor George Wallace to allow free voter registration.

Meredith conceded that he had little chance of winning unless Governor George Wallace of Alabama entered the presidential race and split the white vote.

It was named for the former Governor of Alabama, George C. Wallace.

His father and his wife, Governor Lurleen B. Wallace, also had junior colleges named for them.

Governor George Wallace was born in nearby Clio, Alabama and began his legal and political career in Clayton.

* Cornelia Ellis Wallace ( 1939 – 2009 ), the second wife of Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. and the First Lady of Alabama from 1971 – 1978.

The Scottsboro Boys had served long prison sentences when the arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, in one of history's ironies, partially mitigated this widely construed injustice ( after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice ) by issuing a pardon in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.

This resulted in a visit by Governor James Rolph in March 1932, numerous visits by Hollywood celebrities including Bebe Daniels, Wallace Berry, Rochelle Hudson and others, and visits by famous aviators including Amelia Earhart.

The town gained a post office during the administration of Indiana Governor David Wallace, and was named by John Bowman and Judge Mitchell C. Black in the governor's honor.

* Vernon Wallace Thomson, Governor of Wisconsin

In the Autumn of 1878, the president appointed Lew Wallace, a former Union Army general, as Governor of the New Mexico Territory.

McCarty vehemently denied shooting Carlyle, and later wrote to Governor Wallace, claiming to be innocent of this crime and others attributed to him.