The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

He defeated a corrupt Democratic machine, presided during a depression and a world war, made the city the model for New Deal welfare and public works programs, and championed immigrants and ethnic minorities.

In 1932, he was defeated for re-election to the House by James J. Lanzetta, the Democratic candidate.

Schmitt faced two-term Democratic incumbent, Joseph Montoya, whom he defeated 57 % to 42 %.

Jackson defeated Adams in 1828, and created the modern Democratic party thus inaugurating the Second Party System.

In the last regional election, which took place on 29 – 30 March 2010, Roberto Cota ( Lega Nord ) defeated incumbent Mercedes Bresso ( Democratic Party ).

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Taylor defeated Democratic candidate Lewis Cass and the anti-slavery Free Soil Party, who had nominated former President Martin Van Buren.

The bill was defeated in the Senate by a Democratic filibuster.

Harrison was a hopeful for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President, but was unable to negotiate his way through a tangle of conflicting loyalies to different Party bosses ; the nomination went to Alton B. Parker, who was soundly defeated by Theodore Roosevelt.

However, her attempt to block the election of Richard M. Daley, the son of her late mentor, to the prominent position of Cook County States ' Attorney ( chief local prosecutor ) in 1980 failed as Daley defeated Byrne's candidate, 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke in the Democratic Primary and GOP incumbent Bernard Carey in the general election.

Byrne was narrowly defeated in the 1983 Democratic primary for Mayor by Harold Washington.

He defeated incumbent Representative Bennett Stewart in the Democratic primary.

Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.

In the general election, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155.

Incumbent president Franklin Pierce was defeated in his effort to be renominated by the Democratic Party, which selected Buchanan of Pennsylvania instead.

Having badly lost the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, the Democratic Party turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.

However, in the New Hampshire primary Johnson was nearly defeated by McCarthy, who challenged Johnson on an anti-war platform, but had not expected to become an actual contender for the Democratic nomination.

Similarly, Allan Shivers won the 1952 nominations of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Texas ( and had his name appear on the ballot twice, once for each party ; Democrat Shivers handily defeated Republican Shivers in the general election ).

Hollings ' successor as Governor, Donald S. Russell, resigned in order to accept appointment to the Senate seat, and Hollings defeated Russell in the Democratic primary for the remaining two years of the term.

In 1926 he became Mayor of New York City, having defeated incumbent John F. Hylan in the 1925 Democratic primary with the help of Governor Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall.

He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956 ; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

He defeated his opponent, Nathaniel G. Taylor, with a greater margin of victory than in previous campaigns.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

With his opponent defeated, Captain Thomas Louis then took Minotaur south to join the attack on Franklin.

During the following year, three different men briefly held executive power before Galo Plaza Lasso, running under a coalition of independent Liberals and socialists, narrowly defeated his Conservative opponent in presidential elections.

Most notably, Fujiwara was the first non-Thai to win an official Thai boxing title, when he defeated his Thai opponent in 1978 at Rajadamnern Stadium winning the lightweight championship bout.

The Cowboys easily defeated their first playoff opponent, the Philadelphia Eagles, 34-10.

In the second round, Halonen narrowly defeated her opponent with 51. 6 % against 48. 4 % thus becoming Finland's first female President.

When forced to choose between killing his defeated opponent or yielding, the Champion yielded.

Additionally, it was becoming increasingly apparent that a situation in which the Vice President had been a defeated electoral opponent of the President would impede the ability of the two to effectively work together, and could provide motivation, at least in theory, for a coup d ' état ( since the Vice President would succeed to the office of the President upon the removal or death of the President ).

The wakizashi was used as a backup or auxiliary sword ; it was also used for close quarters fighting, to remove the head of a defeated opponent and sometimes to commit ritual suicide.

In the matrix a ' 1 ' indicates that the runner is preferred over the ' opponent ', while a ' 0 ' indicates that the runner is defeated.

In the 1970 gubernatorial election, Thurmond's preferred candidate, conservative U. S. Representative Albert W. Watson, was defeated by the more moderate opponent, Democrat John C. West, who had opposed Thurmond's initial write-in election to the Senate and the then outgoing lieutenant governor.

Following his conquest of Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, emperor Gratian, whom he defeated near Paris.

Among defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known Barry Goldwater, Johnson's future presidential opponent.

After taking two of the first three games against their second-round opponent, Florida, the Flyers were defeated in overtime in Game 4 and double-overtime in Game 5.

They easily defeated their first round opponent, Buffalo, in five games.

He defeated his final opponent Robert Picardo and won $ 167, 500 for his charity, a record for the show at that time and the largest amount won in any Celebrity Edition of the show ( it was later surpassed by a $ 189, 500 win in a " Tournament of Losers " episode ).

A Second Coalition was formed in 1798, but by 1801, this too was defeated, leaving Britain the only opponent of the new French Consulate.

He defeated his Democratic opponent Kenneth Gaietto.

However, Willard's actions in checking the wraps of his opponent, not a normal procedure, implies he was concerned about foul play, Willard later claimed to have been defeated by gangsterism.

Fleming, however, was not regarded as a serious opponent, and Lott handily defeated him with 64 % of the vote.

“ Returning to her roots ” in the martial arts, she competed in her first mixed martial arts contest and, with a combination of kicks and punches, defeated her opponent Rhonda Gallegos with a first-round knockout.

As Baidar and Kadan's orders had been to serve as a diversion, and they were facing a regrouping opponent, they turned away from Bohemia and Poland and headed southward to join Batu and Subutai, who had soundly defeated the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohi.

Later that fall, Wyden easily defeated his Republican opponent, Darrell Conger, with 71 percent of the vote.