A former Du Pont official became a General Motors vice president and set about maximizing Du Pont's share of the General Motors market.

Then in 1893 Dr. William Jewett Tucker became president and the college's great awakening began.

Zenith absorbed Allstates, stock transfers were arranged, and Freddy became president of the hyphenated combination.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

The split became irrevocable when Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child Jiddu Krishnamurti as the reincarnated Christ.

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.

William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

Brewery president Jerold Hoffberger became the Orioles ' new chairman of the board.

As an adult, his son later became president of the Hungarian Unitarian Church ( Hughes 1999 – 2007 ).

After the death of Bob Jones, Jr., Erin Jones, the wife of BJU president Stephen Jones became director.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

August A. Busch Jr. became president of Anheuser-Busch in 1946 and began the creation of a national network of breweries.

Gerald P. O ' Driscoll, former vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, stated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became examples of crony capitalism.

In 1972, a constitution was adopted, a parliament elected, and Lon Nol became president.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

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

When General Kolingba became president in 1981, he implemented an ethnicity-based recruitment policy for the administration.

Jorge Montt became the new president.

A new Constitution was approved by plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term.

Finally, however, after popular unrest Laurent Gbagbo became president and was sworn in on 26 October 2000.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

Said Mohamed Djohar became president.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Among writers defining the terms of this discourse is Charles Jencks, described by Architectural Design Magazine as " the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years " and the " internationally acclaimed critic ..., whose name became synonymous with Post-modernism in the 80s ".

French also became a member of the National Academy of Design ( 1901 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the Accademia di San Luca, of Rome.

Architectural activity intensified as the Mongols became sedentary, and retained traces of their nomadic origins, such as the north-south orientation of the buildings.

In the mid-and late-1880s, like many of his contemporaries in Germany ( such as Constantin Lipsius, Richard Streiter and Georg Heuser ), Switzerland ( Hans Auer and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli ) and France ( Paul Sédille ), Wagner became a proponent of Architectural Realism.

After opening, Crossett Library was featured in Architectural Forum and became a focus of study for many architrecture students in the 1960s.

In 1962, he became director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York, and subsequently became Professor of Architecture there.

He shortly became the Vice Minister of Architectural Engineering ( 1953 ) followed by the post of Minister of Urban Construction ( 1955 ).

In the early 1970s he became a technician at the Architectural Ceramics course at Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design.

Born in 1948 in Penang, Malaysia, Yeang attended Penang Free School and Cheltenham Boys College ( a British ' public school ' in Gloucestershire, UK ), obtained his first qualifications in architecture from the Architectural Association School ( London ), and received a PhD in ecological design and planning from Cambridge University's Department of Architecture for his dissertation, " A Theoretical Framework for Incorporating Ecological Considerations in the Design and Planning of the Built Environment ", published as Designing with Nature ( McGraw-Hill, 1995 ) that became the springboard for his pioneering work in ecodesign, green architecture and ecocity masterplanning.

He joined the Society of Illustrators in 1907, the Architectural League in 1916, and became a naturalized American in 1911.

In 1809 he became vice-president of the Royal Architectural Society, but this office, as well as that of surveyor of the port of London, he was compelled through partial loss of sight to resign in 1828.

In 1917, architect Claude Batley became a visiting professor ; he was Principal of the School from 1923 to 1943, and is commemorated in the Claude Batley Architectural Gallery for architectural exhibitions, opened in 1996.

In 1829 the architect Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray established the Free School of Trades ( which later became the Grand Ducal Saxon Architectural Trade School, or State School of Architecture ), which operated in the evenings and Sundays and supplemented the courses at the Free Zeichenschule.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

He traveled extensively and became a member of the Foreign Policy Association, and was called upon to advise then – U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

The CCC program became a model for the creation of team-based national service youth conservation programs such as the Student Conservation Association ( SCA ).

His mother, previously a member ( with David ) of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became Jehovah's Witnesses.

Within the Redstone Association, the differences became intolerable to some of the Baptist leaders, when Alexander Campbell began publishing a journal, The Christian Baptist, promoting reform.

After the war he worked for the agriculture ministry as secretary of the Farmers ' Association and became director of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture in 1927.

Headrick, who became known as the father of disc sports, later founded The International Frisbee Association ( IFA ) and began establishing standards for various sports using the Frisbee such as Distance, Freestyle and Guts.

Protestant missionaries campaigning against it tried to gain support from humanitarian and women's rights groups in London, where the issue was raised in the House of Commons, and in Kenya itself a person's stance toward FGM became a test of loyalty, either to the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science Association, of which he became the first president in 1909.

Finland became an associate member of the European Free Trade Association in 1961 and a full member in 1986.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) became particularly interested in the establishment of a council when it had to deal with an increasing number of applications for membership from congregations outside North America.

In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.

In 1905 he became president of the American Philosophical Association.

The Alumni Association became a vital factor in the growth of the NCE and development of the CET.

In 1947 Jomo Kenyatta, former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became president of the more aggressive KAU to demand a greater political voice for Africans.

In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism — he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.

In 1864 Marx became involved in the International Workingmen's Association ( also known as First International )., to whose General Council he was elected at its inception in 1864.

Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Next Generation Adelaide International, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals.

In 1991, Lederman became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.