The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

Within a month Granby resigned the leadership in the commons, feeling himself inadequate to the post, and the party functioned without an actual leader in the commons for the remainder of the parliamentary session.

In June 2009, Sanader abruptly resigned his post, and named Jadranka Kosor in his place.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

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.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

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.

New World Development announced in the early hours of 16 August that Leung had resigned from his post, without any compensation from either side or from the government, for the termination.

Hitler sent Guderian on a forced medical leave of absence, and he resigned his post as chief of staff to Hans Krebs on 29 March.

* Hans Krüger ( 1959 – 1963 ) ( resigned from his post due to his Nazi past )

President Berisha resigned from his post, and Socialists elected Rexhep Meidani as president of Albania.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

He resigned from his post, complaining that the project was " unfeasible " and posed " architectural risks ".

The unpreparedness of the army was blamed on Defence Minister Menon, who " resigned " his government post to allow for someone who might modernise India's military further.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " ( February 24, 303 ).

While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him.

He resigned from that post in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election, which he won.

She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations.

Although the two men came to an agreement to share power, John VI resigned from his imperial post and became a monk.

On 31 December 1999 President Yeltsin resigned, handing the post to the recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who then won the 2000 presidential election.

Due to a number of operational mistakes involving the various police services, German Minister of the Interior Rudolf Seiters took responsibility and resigned from his post.

He served until 1855, a few weeks into Lord Palmerston's first premiership, whereupon he resigned along with the rest of the Peelites after a motion was passed to appoint a committee of inquiry into the conduct of the war.

He was reelected as a Republican in 1859, 1865 and 1871, and served from 31 January 1855 to 4 March 1873, when he resigned to become Vice President.

Faced with growing discontent, Santa Anna resigned in 1855 and Juárez returned to Mexico.

An equestrian accident in 1855 hastened his determination to return to England, and in that year he resigned his post in the East India Company.

In 1855, he resigned the tutorship, travelled to Germany to investigate Continental systems of education, and began his researches into the lives of Isaac Casaubon and Joseph Justus Scaliger, which occupied the remainder of his life.

The first president was Josias Philip Hoffman, but he was accused of being too complaisant towards Moshesh and resigned, being succeeded in 1855 by Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, one of the voortrekkers, who had previously taken an active part in the affairs of Natal.

In 1841 he was elected headmaster of King Edward's school, Bury St Edmunds, but, " spectacularly unsuccessful ", in 1855 he resigned his post and returned to Cambridge, where his time was divided between literary work and private tuition.

In 1855, he resigned his clerkship, entered politics and participated in communal home building schemes.

He resigned his post in 1855 due to poor health, but was permitted to continue his research in Dijon.

He resigned from the army in 1855 to manage his father-in-law's real estate in Chicago, Illinois.

He was the Member of Parliament for Wanganui and Rangitikei in the second parliament ( 1855 – 60 ), Rangitikei in the third, fourth and fifth parliaments ( 1861 – 65, when he resigned ; 1868 – 70 ; 1871 – 75, when he resigned ), Wanganui in the sixth parliament ( 1876 – 79, when he was defeated ), and Rangitikei again ( 1880 – 81, when he was defeated ).

Despite requests from politicians such as Henry Sewell, Stafford declined to stand for parliament until the election of 1855, when he was elected MP for Nelson 1855 – 68 ( resigned ).

He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1855 and served from March 4, 1855 until May 5, 1858, when he resigned to accept an appointment to the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina by President James Buchanan to a seat vacated by Henry Potter.

In 1854, Westphal was appointed as a lecturer, but by the time of Gauss ' death in 1855, he had resigned from his astronomical duties and had been replaced by his colleague Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues.

He was professor of English at West Point from 1850 to 1855 ( when he resigned from the army ), was professor of English literature and history in the University of Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1866.

Newcastle joined the Peelite's in 1846 and held office in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1852 and 1852 and as Secretary of State for War and Secretary at War between 1854 and 1855, when he resigned over the Crimean War.

Flower resigned from the army in 1855 due to ill-health.

He represented the City of Wellington in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, but resigned on 3 August 1855.

He resigned his seat on 18 July 1855 and returned to the United Kingdom.

Cutten served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Dunedin Country electorate – 1855, but resigned before the end of his term.

Campbell entered the 2nd New Zealand Parliament, representing the electorates of the City of Auckland 1855 – 1856 ( resigned ).