Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

Argon became the first member of the noble gases to be discovered.

In 2003, Armenia became a member of the WTO.

In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.

He became a member with the Club's second meeting and hosted their third.

Witnessing and testifying became an integral component to these meetings, where a congregation member or even a stranger would rise and recount his turn from a sinful life to one of piety and peace.

Abydos thereafter became a member of the Delian League, until it revolted from Athenian rule in 411 BC.

In 1223 ( or 1221 ) he became a member of the Dominican Order, against the wishes of his family, and studied theology at Bologna and elsewhere.

In 1831 he became a member of the 90th Regiment of the Tennessee militia.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

Through Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933, where he established a close friendship with László Moholy-Nagy, Sigfried Giedion and Philip Morton Shand.

) Still a member of the laity, he became Cardinal deacon in 1402 and Papal legate in Forlì in 1403.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

When that party dissolved, he became a member of the Know-Nothing party.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

In the 1520s he returned to Regensburg as a wealthy man, and became a member of the city's council.

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

Clinton was also a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

In 1964, when Watterson was six years old, the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council member.

The newly arrived family soon hired Louise Delfault, a maid who eventually became an instrumental member of the family.

A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

While in college, he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Eventually that new architecture became Alpha.

He became a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity.

Alpha Centauri being a founding world of the Federation and even having a humanlike native race called Centaurans became a popular fan theory, possibly based on uncertainty as to whether or not Zefram Cochrane ( described in Metamorphosis as " Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri ") was a native of Alpha Centauri or a resident of a human colony in that system ; the latter has since been revealed to be the case, Cochrane having spent most of his life on Earth but eventually retiring to spend his final years on Alpha Centauri, prior to his disappearance and presumed death.

She studied at Hanover College Indiana, where she became member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

While at the University of Alberta, Mitchell became a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Alpha Tau chapter ).

She briefly attended Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, and Spring Hill College in Mobile, but transferred to Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she became an active member of the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1969.

Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the Alpha Phi chapter in 1898 at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Merton also became a member of Alpha Delta Phi that semester and joined the Philolexian Society, the campus literary and debate group.

Ms. Post served as the honorary house mother of the college's first local fraternity, Sigma Beta Epsilon, which became in 1969 the New York Beta chapter of the nation's largest national fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

During this time, reggae particularly influenced African popular music, where Sonny Okusuns ( Nigeria ), John Chibadura ( Zimbabwe ), Lucky Dube ( South Africa ) and Alpha Blondy ( Ivory Coast ) became stars.

She became a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Rho chapter, fraternity for women.

He became a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.

After graduating, Getty enrolled to study business administration at the University of Western Ontario, where he became a football star and a member of The Kappa Alpha Society.

After leaving Elmwood, Cronyn went to Ridley College in St. Catharines, and McGill University in Montreal, where he became a member of The Kappa Alpha Society.

In 1996, he became the first chairman of the World Policy Council, a think tank of Alpha Phi Alpha whose purpose is to expand the fraternity's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.

The combination of Quadrics and Alpha 21264 ( EV6 ) microprocessors proved very successful, and Digital / Compaq rapidly became one of the world's largest suppliers of supercomputers.

The only significant previous use of the term " Syfy " in relation to science fiction was by the website SyFy Portal, which became Airlock Alpha after selling the brand to NBC Universal ( represented by a shell company ) in February for $ 250, 000.

Skai TV was sold, and soon became known as " Alpha-Sky " before completely phasing in to its new name as Alpha TV.

He became a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, which caters to Jewish students, while attending the University of Illinois.