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.

Grace became a fearless leader and gained fame as a sea captain and pirate.

Fernand Braudel became the leader of the second generation after 1945.

He was one of the seven cardinals who, in May 1408, deserted Pope Gregory XII, and, with those following Antipope Benedict XIII from Avignon, convened the Council of Pisa, of which Cossa became the leader.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

Paul considered Apollos to be an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) who became a leader in the important Corinthian congregation.

He remained with David, and became priest of the party of which he was the leader ( 1 Sam.

Iakhos later became an attendant of Demeter and the leader of Eleusinian Mysteries.

Muhammad ` Alí became jealous of his half-brother and set out to establish authority for himself as an alternative leader with the support of his brothers Badi ' u ' llah and Diya ' u ' llah.

Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

When the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) was formed, Karmal became one of its leading members, and eventually became the leader of the Parcham faction.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

Jo Grimond, for example, who became Liberal leader in 1956, was MP for the remote Orkney and Shetland islands.

Selig became an increasingly vocal opponent of Commissioner Fay Vincent, and soon became the leader of a group of owners seeking his removal.

After Joseph Stalin was acclaimed as leader of the CPSU in 1929, Pasternak became further disillusioned with the Party's tightening censorship of literature.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

As the leader of guerrilla raids against the Spaniards, Manuel Rodríguez became a national symbol of resistance.

The following year, Raúl Castro became Acting President, replacing his brother as the de facto leader of the country.

Accordingly, Lansbury became leader of the party and Attlee became deputy leader.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became one of the most popular weeklies of the country.

In earlier business cycles, when this occurred the country usually experienced a sharp upturn in residential construction as mortgage financing became easier to obtain.

After this battle and the loss of one of Portugal's most remarkable infantes, the Duke of Braganza became the de facto ruler of the country.

He became the youngest governor in the country at 32.

Following the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Bursa became one of the industrial centers of the country.

In fact, slaves influenced early development of the music that became country and bluegrass, through the introduction of the banjo and the innovation of musical techniques for both the banjo and fiddle.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedoms in the country and both children became adept students of natural history.

Greece was the only Balkan country with a navy powerful enough to deny use of the Aegean to the Ottoman Empire, thus a treaty between Greece and Bulgaria became necessary ; it was signed in May 1912.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

This became the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in 1980, as Cape Verde sought to distance itself from Guinea-Bissau, following unrest in that country.

On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

In 1993, Ange-Félix Patassé became the first elected president of the country.

In May 2010 Chile became the first South American country to join the OECD.

In 2006, Chile became the country with the highest nominal GDP per capita in Latin America.

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

The country became independent on 7 August 1960.

Deng Xiaoping was the Paramount Leader of China from 1978 to 1992, although he never became the head of the party or state, and his influence within the Party led the country to significant economic reforms.

As the Federation of Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1830, the Department of Cundinamarca ( as established in Angostura ) became a new country, the Republic of New Granada.