In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

As criticism arose of her management of the American Red Cross, plus her advancing age, Barton resigned as president in 1904, at the age of 83.

Masqueray resigned shortly after the Fair opened in 1904, having been invited by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota to design a new cathedral for the city.

Holland resigned from the company effective April 1904.

In 1904 she resigned from the party on the issue of Free Trade when Joseph Chamberlain gained control in his campaign for Tariff Reform.

He conducted a nationalist campaign in the Écho de Paris, and was for some time president of the Ligue de la Patrie Française, but resigned in 1904, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing.

In August 1904, when the Watson government resigned, he became Prime Minister.

After a disagreement with the management of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1904, Herbert resigned, founding the Victor Herbert Orchestra.

The first man on the post, Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, resigned after only a year while another, Nikolai Bobrikov, was assassinated in 1904 by the Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.

In April 1904 the Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, resigned, and was succeeded in quick succession by the Labor leader Chris Watson, the Free Trade leader George Reid and then Deakin again.

On 22 September 1904, James resigned from parliament to take up an appointment as Agent-General for Western Australia in London.

Parker resigned from the bench after receiving the 1904 Democratic Party nomination for the U. S. presidency.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

He resigned in 1897 when he was appointed to Félix-Gabriel Marchand ’ s Cabinet but was re-elected in the subsequent by-election and in 1900 and 1904.

He won the 1900 election and the 1904 election and resigned in 1905.

Masqueray resigned soon after the fair opened in 1904, having been invited by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul to Minnesota to design a new cathedral for the city in the fair's Beaux Arts style.

However, Blair resigned from the Board sixteen days before the 1904 election in order to campaign against Laurier.

He resigned the comptrollership in 1903, and was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, serving from 1903 to 1915, from 1904 on serving on its Appellate Division.

Dick served until he resigned in 1904, having been elected to the Senate in March 1904 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Marcus A. Hanna.

When he resigned his post French rule had been firmly established over a very considerable and fertile area and the foundation laid upon which his successors built up the position occupied after 1904 by France in West Africa.

In the midst of all this work to build the State Street retail store, Selfridge resigned abruptly from the company in 1904, buying rival Schlesinger & Mayer, before selling it only three months later.

After suffering a severe episode of bipolar disorder in 1903 and having his salary withheld during extended sick leave, Mather resigned from Pacific Coast and joined Thorkildsen full time in 1904.

John Taylor Wood ( August 13, 1830 – July 19, 1904 ) was an officer in the United States Navy who resigned after the American Civil War started.

Elvin Santos, the vice-president during the start of Zelaya's term, had resigned in order to run for president in the coming elections, and by presidential line of succession the head of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, was appointed president.

" 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.

He had not served a year when he resigned ( in September 1851 ) to run for the governorship of Mississippi on the issue of the Compromise of 1850, which Davis opposed.

Accordingly, St. Laurent resigned on 21 June 1957 — ending what is still the longest uninterrupted run in government for a party at the federal level in Canadian history.

In November, Somoza resigned as chief director of the National Guard, thus complying with constitutional requirements for eligibility to run for the presidency.

In response, Faure Gnassingbé agreed to hold elections and on 25 February, Gnassingbé resigned as president, but soon afterward accepted the nomination to run for the office in April.

On February 25, Gnassingbé resigned as president, soon after accepting nomination to run for the office in April.

( It is also possible from what Jack Ryan Jr. says in Teeth of the Tiger that Jack Sr. resigned, feeling he has done what he needed to as President, and encouraged Robby Jackson to run for the presidency.

He resigned from this post in 1972 to run for office in Italy.

In 1956, Thurmond resigned to run in the party primary, which he won.

He resigned from the Presidency of the British Society in 1944, the year in which, under the Presidency of Sylvia Payne, there finally emerged a tripartite compromise agreement which allowed the Freudians, Klienians and a group of “ Independents ” to run their own training and accreditation programmes.

When he resigned to run for the presidency in 1999, Rosario Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City.

He resigned two years later to run for Congress.

Glenn resigned from NASA six weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy to run for office in his home state of Ohio.

Gilles Duceppe announced on 11 May 2007 that he would run in the Parti Québécois leadership race to replace André Boisclair, who resigned on 8 May 2007, after the poor performance in the March 2007 Quebec provincial election and internal dissent forced him to step down.

In January 1984, Tramiel resigned from Commodore, because of disagreement " on the basic principles — how to run the company ".

Paredes resigned as Commander to run for the presidency.

It is now run by Jacques Bompard, a member of the conservative Movement for France which he joined after having resigned from the Front National.

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

By deciding to run as an independent he was deemed to have resigned from the Labour Party.

However, in 1962, Romney resigned to run for Governor of Michigan.

By the time he arrived in June 1956, McKay had resigned in order to run for the U. S. Senate from his home state of Oregon and Fred Andrew Seaton had been appointed to replace him.

Garneau resigned from his employment with the Canadian Space Agency to run for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election.

In 1826 Molson decided to run against a young Louis-Joseph Papineau but resigned quickly after discovering the amount of support Papineau had from the French and the Irish.

The Honduran constitution mandated that the head of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, who was next in the Presidential line of succession, becomes the provisional head of state since Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos had resigned in December 2008 to run for President.