Armed Forces Day Proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

National Maritime Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of Monday, November 13, 1961, as the State Ballet of Rhode Island Week, requesting all Rhode Islanders to give special attention to this unusual event which should contribute to the cultural life of the State.

Proclamation Thanksgiving Day by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

It was undisclosed at the time that New York State Governor John A.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.

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.

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

Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 – 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.

Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.

The original Certificate of Election of John Jay as Governor of New York ( June 6, 1795 )

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

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

He ran for Lieutenant Governor with the slogan " Put Sarge in Charge " and was elected in 1966, and in 1969, he became governor when Governor John Volpe ( R ) became secretary of Transportation under President Richard Nixon.

In 1962 he was elected Governor, upsetting Republican Governor John Volpe by only 4, 431 votes out of over 2 million cast.

John Anthony Volpe (; December 8, 1908 – November 11, 1994 ) was the 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts and a U. S. Secretary of Transportation.

During his administration, Governor Volpe signed legislation to ban racial imbalances in education, reorganized the state's Board of Education, liberalized birth control laws, and increased public housing for low-income families.

Governor Volpe also raised revenues by his long, and ultimately successful, fight to institute a three percent state sales tax.

In 1968, Governor Volpe ran unsuccessfully as a " Favorite son " candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Governor Volpe died in 1994, and is buried in Forest Glade Cemetery in Wakefield.

The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge was named in his memory, as well as the Governor John A. Volpe Library at Wakefield High School in Wakefield.

The state intervened after a social worker in Minnesota wrote to Governor John Volpe expressing shock at a scene involving a naked man being taunted by a guard.

The Volpe Center is named after Massachusetts Governor and U. S. Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, and its work includes a broad mix of projects that cut across traditional transportation modes and technical disciplines including the Federal Aviation Administration's Enhanced Traffic Management System ( ETMS ) and Safety Performance Analysis System ( SPAS ), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's SafeStat Online.

Kessler persuaded then Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe to visit the site.

Since the 1950s, the title Governor General has been given to all representatives of the sovereign in independent Commonwealth realms.

Texas conservatives, traditionally " yellow dog Democrats ", had already voted for Republicans in the 1950s, when Democratic Governor Allan Shivers had aligned with Eisenhower, rather than the national Democratic candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, in a movement that was jokingly called " Shivercrats ".

Starr served as bureau chief during the controversial period under Governor Orval Faubus and was responsible for reporting the social changes sweeping the state during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the critical Little Rock Crisis of 1957-58.

In Child of the Fifties ( 1972 ), Klein talks about his life as a child in the 1950s: about air raid drills, Johnny Mathis music, showing off condoms while at the high school dance, the high school lunch ladies, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Governor Averell Harriman ( of New York ), meeting Yankee stars, the Yankees ' losing the World Series, and much more.

On his return to Mauritius, Garrioch was immediately appointed to the post of Crown Counsel, at a time in the 1950s when it was the Chief Justice who advised the Governor on the appointment of Law Officers and District Magistrates, and the established practice at the time was that members of the Bar who were to join the public service had to first be appointed as a District Magistrate ; only those thought to be of the highest caliber were then transferred to the Attorney-General's Office.

Palace of the Governor in 1950s.

Governor in 1950s.

The female Governor of Osaka from 2000 – 2008, Fusae Ohta, when called upon to present the Governor's Prize to the champion of the annual Osaka tournament, was required to do so on the walkway beside the ring or send a male representative in her place.

Dooku urges the leader of the Death Watch, Governor Pre Vizsla of Concordia, to give the Galactic Republic a reason to send a military presence to Mandalore, which Dooku believes will inspire the inhabitants of Mandalore to start a revolution, spearheaded by the Death Watch movement.

This event caused Governor Moody to impose martial law for a month and send in state troops to help rid the town of its criminal element.

:" Apart from whatever may be the general wish of the Zulu nation, it seems to me that the seizure of the two refugee women in British territory by an armed force crossing an unmistakable and well known boundary line, and carrying them off and murdering them with contemptuous disregard for the remonstrances of the Natal policemen, is itself an insult and a violation of British territory which cannot be passed over, and unless apologised and atoned for by compliance with the Lieutenant Governor ’ s demands, that the leaders of the murderous gangs shall be given up to justice, it will be necessary to send to the Zulu King an ultimatum which must put an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.

On 24 January 1839, the Maine Legislature authorized the newly elected Governor John Fairfield to send the Maine State Land Agent, Rufus McIntire, the Penobscot County Sheriff, and a posse of volunteer militia to the upper Aroostook to pursue and arrest the New Brunswickers.

Governor Grey persuaded the Colonial Office in London to send a this number of Imperial troops to New Zealand and General Sir Duncan Cameron was appointed to lead the campaign.

Outside of Britain and India the British Imperial Army amounted to only about forty thousand men and by pointing out the history of the warlike Maori, such as the stealing of gunpowder from his home on Kawau Island, Governor Grey persuaded the Colonial Office in London to send a quarter of them to New Zealand.

On 25 March 1825 Governor Brisbane mentioned the discoveries of Hovell and Hume in a dispatch and said that he intended to send a vessel to Western Port to have it explored.

Except for occasional attacks upon non-union workmen, or upon persons supposed not to be in sympathy with the miners ’ union, there had been no serious disturbance in Goldfield ; but in December 1907, Governor Sparks, at the insistence of the mine owners, appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Goldfield, on the ground that the situation there was ominous, that destruction of life and property seemed probable, and that the state had no militia and would be powerless to maintain order.

President John Tyler refused to send in Federal troops at Governor King's request to suppress the uprising.

Governor Green then asked the federal government to send federal troops ; the Roosevelt administration ignored the request.

Fayette County sheriff called upon Governor McKinley to send out the militia to defend the prisoner from a prospective lynch mob following his sentencing to 20 years in prison at a hearing held on October 16.

Early in 1775, Governor John Penn called the Assembly into session, intent on having Pennsylvania send its own declarations to the crown.

In the same year of 1831 there were rumours of serious unrest in the east, causing Governor Sir Lowry Cole to send Smith to Natal in January 1832.

New Hampshire chose not to send delegates due to an ongoing financial crisis in the colony ; by the time some assembly members sought to reconsider this decision, the assembly had adjourned and Governor Benning Wentworth refused to call it into session.

During the July San Francisco general strike of 1934, Rossi organized a committee to thwart the strike and move freight ; he called on Governor Merriam to send the National Guard to quell the strike, but argued successfully against the governor who wanted to declare martial law.

Governor Edwards issued his only veto to send the bill back to the legislature, and it was never revised.

III, p. 276, Blair and Robertson ) two letters from Governor General Guido de Lavezaris to King Philip II of Spain mention: " It seemed best to send Captain Juan de Salcedo with 70 or 80 soldiers to explore the coast of Los Ilocano on the shores of the river called Bigan.

In the mid 17th century, the Dutch Governor of Malacca wrote to the Dutch East India Company, asking it to send two boats to the Straits of Singapore to " cruise to the south of Singapore Straits under the Hook of Barbukit and in the vicinity of Pedra Branca " to stop Chinese traders from entering Johor River.

In response to complaints by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Philadelphia Governor John Penn asked General Thomas Gage to send someone capable of designing defenses for the city.

A State Legislature and the Governor approved a law, supported by an initiative vote of the people, denying a parent the right to send his child to a religious school of his choosing.

When the English crown forbade colonial Governor's absence from the colonies without leave in 1680, it became the Council ’ s duty to designate or send a deputy who could exercise all the powers of the Governor under the written instructions of both the crown and the Governor.

At the same time however, representatives from Governor Jackson and Missouri's Lt Governor, Thomas C. Reynolds were meeting with Confederate authorities asking them to send send an army into Missouri.