Sir John Kerr resigned in 1977 after accepting the position of Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, a post which ultimately he did not take up.

When the Nazis came to power, there was only one resignation from the Foreign Office: German Ambassador to the United States Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron resigned because he could not in good conscience serve the Nazi regime.

Gary Locke, former Commerce Secretary resigned on August 11, 2011, to become the United States Ambassador to China.

* Murder in Samarkand by Craig Murray is a book about the UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan's experiences in this role, until he resigned over human rights abuses in the country in October 2004.

After the hearings were over, but before the scheduled vote on whether to report the articles to the full House, Mellon accepted an appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James and resigned in February.

He resigned this position in 1867 Two years later he was sent to represent his country as Ambassador to the United Kingdom, but in November 1870 he was recalled by President Grant.

In 1978, Richard F. Kneip resigned office six months before the expiration of his term to accept an appointment as United States Ambassador to Singapore.

Four governors have resigned: William Barstow due to fraud allegations, Robert La Follette, Sr. to take his seat in the United States Senate, Patrick Joseph Lucey to become Ambassador to Mexico, and Tommy Thompson to become United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

During his brief stint as Ambassador, he was met with a lot of hostility from both the Spanish media and the Mexican media alike as he was persistently asked questions about his actions as President, and resigned within several months due to this as well as health problems.

He resigned on August 2, 1946, near the end of his last term, in order to accept appointment as the U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, a position he held until January 25, 1953, when he retired to Burlington.

He resigned his post in October 1945, citing personal reasons, and was succeeded by Wellington Koo, then Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

In 1940 Casey resigned from parliament when Menzies appointed him as the first Australian Ambassador to the United States.

He resigned as Ambassador to Tanzania upon Barack Obama's inauguration as president.

Edge, who faced a reelection campaign in 1930, resigned from the United States Senate in 1929 to accept appointment as Ambassador to France.

In 2010 Haden was given the honorary position of Rugby World Cup Ambassador, but resigned this post after making controversial statements about a racial quota he alleged the Canterbury Crusaders to be operating, calling Polynesians " darkies ", and then suggesting women raped by sports stars may be partly to blame.

He resigned when President Bill Clinton nominated him to be United States Ambassador to Mexico, however the nomination ultimately failed and he never took up the office.

On August 30, 2007, Binns resigned as the PEI Progressive Conservative Party leader and Opposition leader, upon being named Ambassador of Canada to Ireland by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

In April 1974, President Nixon announced that he would appoint Cooper to be the U. S. Ambassador to East Germany, but during the final negotiations between the countries for the U. S. to establish an embassy in the country, Nixon resigned the presidency.

In 1993, Flynn resigned during his third term as mayor when he was appointed by Clinton to serve as U. S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

After Bell resigned as Attorney General in August 1979, President Carter thereafter appointed him as Special Ambassador to the Helsinki Convention.

He resigned the position following his appointment as Ambassador to India.

When 17-year U. S. Congressman Tom Foglietta resigned from the House of Representatives upon being named U. S. Ambassador to Italy by Billl Clinton, Brady was unopposed in the primary and won the general election with 74 % of the vote.

He resigned in October 2008 and was appointed to be a UK Business Ambassador for UK Trade & Investment.

* On May 10, 1994, he simultaneously resigned from his post as Ambassador, and from the US Foreign Service, following a career of 28 years.

They were not sufficiently challenging however, and she resigned in 1887, to go to Germany with her brother Winslow and his family while he was there on study.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

Russell resumed office, but resigned again in early 1852 when a combination of the protectionists and Lord Palmerston defeated him on a Militia Bill.

Philippe Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company, and Philippe Kahn resigned as Chairman, CEO and President of Borland, a position he had held for 12 years, in January 1995.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

Later in 1932 the Liberals resigned their ministerial posts over the introduction of the Ottawa Agreement on Imperial Preference.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Prince Sihanouk resigned as head of state on April 4.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

In 1999, Anjouan had internal conflicts and on August 1 of that year, the 80-year-old first president Foundi Abdallah Ibrahim resigned, transferring power to a national coordinator, Said Abeid.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

Chiang resigned as President on January 21, 1949, as KMT forces suffered bitter losses and defections to the Communists.

Beatty resigned from the regiment on 21 November 1865, with the honorary rank of Captain.

Hsieh and his cabinet resigned en masse on January 24 to make way for Su and his new cabinet.

Senior members of the military can convene for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, so during the course of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, when Mubarak resigned and transferred power to this body on February 11, 2011.

He resigned following investigations into his financial activities and his successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament — the 1998 World Cup — in which England were eliminated in the second round again by Argentina and again on penalties ( after a 2 – 2 draw ).

Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance.

In 1773 he resigned from the Marblehead committee over the virulently negative response the townspeople had to the hospital for treating smallpox he set up on Cat Island.

He resigned his crown-appointed positions in 1776 and, on June 22, went on to represent New Jersey in the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

Cossiga resigned two months before the end of his term, on 1992.