And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

The authors of the Handbook of British Chronology Third Edition say he was named bishop of Hereford in 1056, holding the see until he resigned it in 1060, but other sources say that he merely administered the see while it was vacant, or that he was bishop of Hereford from 1055 to 1060.

Both immediately resigned from their respective offices and Alexander had difficulty in forming a new cabinet.

When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.

The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.

In 2008 he resigned from this position due to differences of opinion.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

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

* 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.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

The Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, became a scapegoat for the crisis and was widely blamed for failing to ensure adequate coal stocks, and soon resigned from his post.

In 1891, Peirce resigned from the Coast Survey at Superintendent Thomas Corwin Mendenhall's request.

On 11 February, following weeks of determined popular protest and pressure, Mubarak resigned from office.

On May 24, Kazuo Matsui, former Rockies second baseman during the 2007 championship season, was resigned to the club following his unconditional release from the Houston Astros.

In 1960 Bertrand Russell resigned from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in order to form the Committee of 100, which became, in effect, the direct action wing of CND.

In 1985, Cathy Massiter, an MI5 officer who had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 20 / 20 Vision programme, " MI5's Official Secrets ".

Chiang resigned from the office for one month in disagreement with Sun's extremely close cooperation with the Comintern, but returned at Sun's demand.

A few days later Zoff resigned, following strong criticism from A. C. Milan president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.

Atchison then resigned from the army over reported strategy arguments with General Price and moved to Texas for the duration of the Civil War.

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

" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

If a senator died, resigned, or was expelled, the legislature of the state would appoint a replacement to serve out the remainder of the senator's term.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

" Ultimately, Sen. Conkling and his junior colleague, Sen. Thomas C. Platt, resigned their Senate seats to seek vindication, but they found only further humiliation when the New York legislature elected others in their places.

After calling for the French to introduce a Vietnamese legislature, he resigned after three months in office when this was rejected.

In December 1819, he resigned his post in the state legislature to fill the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of John J. Crittenden.

In December of that year, he won a five-man, eleven-ballot contest in the state legislature, that enabled him to become the Senator from Pennsylvania in order to complete the unexpired term of the previous senator who had resigned.

( Charlotte beat Tim Matthes in Nov. 2008 elections to fill the seat vacated by Jan Angel, who resigned to run for state legislature.

In the state legislature Shandon is located in the 15th Senate District, and represented by Republican Abel Maldonado until he resigned when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Lieutenant Governor, and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakeslee.

He was elected mayor of Greeneville in 1834, although he resigned after just a few months in office to pursue a position in the Tennessee state legislature, which he attained the following year.

He resigned a few months after the legislature agreed to drop the articles against him.

Muhlenberg was elected by the legislature to the U. S. Senate on a second ballot in February 1801 over George Logan, but resigned on June 30 of that same year.

When Tennessee was admitted as a state in 1796, the state legislature appointed Willie Blount to the Superior Court of Law and Equity, though he either declined the appointment or resigned before issuing any opinions.

On January 31, 2005, Eves resigned his seat in the provincial legislature.

Brownlow was re-elected by a greatly expanded electorate ( with the inclusion of freed slaves ) in 1867 ; he resigned in February 1869 to accept election to the United States Senate by the state legislature, the method used prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

In 1996, Rae stepped down as party leader and resigned his seat in the legislature.

In 1807, he resigned after being elected to the state legislature.

In 1825, the Tennessee state legislature chose White to replace Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate ( Jackson had resigned following his failed run for the presidency in 1824 ).

He was elected as member of the Legislative Council of Bengal, as an Indian National Congress candidate representing Calcutta University but resigned next year when Congress decided to boycott the legislature.

After Mr. DiCianno's testimony to the Nevada legislature that no NPM audits were conducted while Gibbon's was governor he resigned the following day.

Harper resigned from the Manitoba legislature on November 30, 1992.

Graham spent much of his career before entering elected politics working for the province's civil service and when his father resigned from the legislature in 1998, Shawn Graham was elected to replace him in a by-election as a member of the Liberal Party.

He resigned from the party leadership and the legislature on March 21, 2001.

Magoffin, fed up with the party divisions within the population and legislature, announced a special session of the legislature, and then resigned his office in 1862.