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.

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.

On August 15, 2008 Chen resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party and apologized thus: " Today I have to say sorry to all of the DPP members and supporters.

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.

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

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.

Neves resigned in August 2008.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

Soon afterward, however, Lewis denied that he was leaving the telethon at all, but on August 3, 2011, the MDA announced that Lewis resigned as chairman and telethon host, the circumstances leading to his resignation unknown.

In August 2003, Taylor resigned and fled the country and vice-president Moses Blah became acting president.

Due to intense pressure from the international community and the United States, Charles Taylor resigned his office on August 11, 2003.

Lev 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.

It finally dissolved in August 31, 2003, after he resigned from the leadership.

* In August 1941, Menzies resigned as prime minister.

In August 1996, Prime Minister Edem Kodjo resigned, and the planning minister, Kwassi Klutse, was appointed prime minister.

But on 3 August 1921, the GNA resigned İsmet Pasha from the Minister of National Defence because of his failure at Eskişehir-Kütahya and on 5 August, just before the Battle of Sakarya, appointed the chairman of GNA Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( Atatürk ) to the commander-in-chief of the Army of the GNA.

Dole resigned his Senate seat on June 11 and the Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP's nominee for President.

Menzies resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the UAP on 29 August 1941.

O ' Dwyer resigned from office on August 31, 1950.

Even after Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued writing to him but eventually the correspondence ceased as it was seen as inappropriate.

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

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.

* August 1917 – George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson ( resigned ) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet.

By mid 1883, financial difficulties due to aggressive growth and expenditures led to a shake up among the D & RG board of directors, and General Palmer resigned as president of the D & RG in August 1883, while retaining that position with the Western.

Carter resigned from the Antiquities Service in 1905 after an enquiry into an affray ( known as the Saqqara Affair ) between Egyptian site guards and a group of French tourists in which he sided with the Egyptian personnel.

In January 1906, Katsura resigned the premiership to Saionji Kinmochi over controversy and unpopularity of the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) ending the war between Japan and Russia.

He resigned this position in January 1905 ; he had enjoyed writing editorials, but could not maintain interest in the stuff of local news.

Balfour eventually resigned as Prime Minister in December 1905, hoping in vain that the Liberal leader Campbell-Bannerman would be unable to form a strong government.

The Liberals found themselves suddenly returned to power in December 1905 when Arthur Balfour resigned as Prime Minister, prompting Edward VII to invite Campbell-Bannerman to form a minority government as the first Liberal Prime Minister of the 20th century.

Despite Law's efforts to forge consensus within the Conservatives, Balfour was unable to hold the two sides of his party together, and resigned in December 1905.

In the first batch of 16 students of 1905, only seven made to the final and graduated in May 1910 while the remaining six students graduated in four months later and others resigned from the school.

In March 1905, feeling himself no longer secure, he resigned, indicating Fortis as his successor.

In 1905, Orage resigned his teaching position and moved to London.

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 ).

In July 1905 he resigned from this post after a prolonged dispute about payment and his right to take on students for extra tuition.

Gouin, who had held office since 1905, resigned precisely one year after the election to make way for his successor Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

Due to internal dissension within his party, he resigned in 1905, and was succeeded as Liberal leader and premier by Lomer Gouin.

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

Two members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley, resigned in 1905 following the second manifesto.

In 1905, Apostles John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles due to disagreement over the manifesto forbidding polygamy.

He resigned the judicial post in 1905.

He resigned to run for mayor, winning election as a Democrat, in 1905.

He resigned along with the rest of the Unionist government in December 1905.

In 1905, he broke with Laurier and resigned from Cabinet on the issue of publicly funded religious education in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

After presiding over the creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, Sifton resigned from cabinet following a dispute with Laurier over religious education.

In 1905, still under an unexpired 5-year contract, Austin resigned from the Wolseley Tool & Motor Company, taking some of the senior staff with him.

He was a Representative from New Mexico ; born on Greenwood plantation, near Bayou Sara, Louisiana., April 3, 1861 ; attended the public schools ; moved to the Territory of New Mexico in 1879 and worked on a cattle ranch until 1881 ; acted as post trader at Fort Stanton ; engaged in the mercantile and stock business until 1886 ; deputy treasurer of Lincoln County in 1886 and 1887 ; elected county clerk in 1888, county assessor in 1890, and sheriff in 1892 ; member of the Territorial senate in 1894 and 1896, serving as president the latter year ; lieutenant of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as “ Roosevelt ’ s Rough Riders ,” in the Spanish-American War ; sheriff of Otero County in 1899 ; resigned to join the Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry ; lieutenant, provost marshal, and provost judge, with service in the Philippine Islands from December 16, 1899, to March 20, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Camarines, Philippine Islands, in 1901 ; chief of police of the city of Manila, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Isabela 1903-1905 ; Governor of the Province of Samar from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned ; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1907-1911 ; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from January 8, 1912, to March 3, 1913 ; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912 ; engaged in the hotel business in Socorro, N. Mex.