Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

In 1952 Aalto married architect Elissa Mäkiniemi ( died 1994 ), who had been working as an assistant in his office.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

In 1942 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

( Ernest Bevin had died shortly before Labour lost office.

Douglas died suddenly after only eight months in office, on October 1, 2000, and was replaced by Pierre Charles, also of the DLP.

On 13 September 81 after barely two years in office, he unexpectedly died of fever during a trip to the Sabine territories.

Claiming illness, Uona was permitted to return to the capital where he died ; posthumously, the order of banishment was burned and his office restored.

His father died when he was at the age of three, and he was given no rank nor office of the court.

A governor may also resign and three have died in office.

The 1912 elections were won by Manuel Bonilla, but he died after just over a year in office.

After he died in 1658, his son Richard Cromwell succeeded him in the office but he was forced to abdicate within a year.

On 10 August 1784 Allan Ramsay died and the office of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King therefore became vacant.

All but two of the Grand Masters died in office, and several died during military campaigns.

Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, after just 15 months in office.

Radek was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary ( now Lviv in Ukraine ), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Jewish family, his father, Bernhard, worked in the post office and died whilst Karl was young.

On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

In 1955, Fleming died at his home in London of a heart attack.

The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

On November 4, 1955, Cy Young died on his farm at the age of 88.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Lombardi led the team to a 7 – 5 – 2 record, their best since 1955, but died of cancer on the eve of the 1970 season.

Shemp rejoined the group after Curly suffered a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage in May 1946, reinstating the original line-up until November 1955, when Shemp died of a heart attack.

Three years after Curly's death, Shemp died of a sudden heart attack at age 60 on November 22, 1955.

Bentley Tollemache died in 1955 and, as he had no sons, the estate passed to his cousin, John Tollemache.

He died at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on August 14, 1955.

In 1958, ground was broken for a $ 35 million facility that opened in November 1960, and was named after McCormick, who died in 1955.

* Clémentine, born at Laken on 30 July 1872, and died at Nice on 8 March 1955.

McCormick, a vigorous campaigner for the Republican Party, died in 1955, just four days before Democratic boss Richard J. Daley was elected mayor for the first time.

His mother, Melanie ( died February 13, 1955, Los Angeles, California, aged 77 ), was German, and a cousin of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Pictures.

1955: married Gerd Ericsson, who died 3 November 1968.

Maurice Utrillo died on 5 November 1955, and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre.

Raymond Norwood Bell of North Carolina who was overcome by remorse and died of alcoholism in 1955.

He died in 1955, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Kingston lost its most influential advocate as permanent site of the Hockey Hall of Fame when Sutherland died in 1955.

She last stayed with him months before he died in 1955.

* Alfred Garth Jones-Illustrator died in Sidcup in 1955.

He died in Gainsville, Florida in 1955 at age 69.

When Midwest City's founder and developer, W. P. " Bill " Atkinson, died in 1999, he left his 1955 mansion in trust for the community's enjoyment and historical appreciation.

St. Katharine died in 1955 and was canonized in 2000.