I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

In 1976, she signed with the Los Angeles public-relations firm Katz-Gallin-Morey, working closely with Sandy Gallin, who served as her personal manager for the next twenty-five years.

Edith Stein served as his personal assistant during his first few years in Freiburg, followed later by Martin Heidegger from 1920 to 1923.

He traveled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors.

Stein was Vince Neil's personal manager and also, according to the band and rival manager Allen Kovac, served as the band's manager at one time.

* Mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Campano served as personal physician to Pope Boniface VIII.

The federal court has personal jurisdiction, based on Dale's presence in South Carolina at the time process was served ( transient service of process ).

Grant's first choice, Elihu B. Washburne, given the State Department only as personal favor, served 12 days in office, resigned due to " sickness ", and then was appointed Minister to France.

Harding took on a personal secretary in the Senate, George B. Christian, Jr., a former neighbor, who protected him from political patrons and intrusive inquiries, and served until the future president's death.

Several thousand Heruli served in the personal guard of Belisarius throughout the campaigns.

Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Bettine ( née Moore ) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to Congo / Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko.

In Sherman's case, this was in part because he developed close personal ties to Grant during the two years they served together in the West.

He is best known for executing large public projects in New York City and upstate, many of them a result of his long and fruitful personal relationship with Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he served as an adviser.

Jiang Qing served as Mao's personal secretary in the 1940s and was head of the Film Section of the CPC Propaganda Department in the 1950s.

Madley ( 2005 ) argues that the German experience in German South-West Africa was a crucial precursor to Nazi colonialism and genocide and that personal connections, literature, and public debates served as conduits for communicating colonialist and genocidal ideas and methods from the colony to Germany.

As the Chief-of-Staff, Allen served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer, who was responsible for the organization, training, and equipping of 750, 000 active duty Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and civilian personal serving in the United States and overseas.

For the patrons, such chapels served not only as public expressions of personal piety but also as valuable diplomatic tools, encouraging important visitors to come and venerate their relics and showing their connection to the French crown.

Essentially, he served an administrative function and did not seek to advance a personal overview of American security and foreign policy.

Although he held no formal executive position, he wielded immense unofficial power, exercising personal command of both the ARVN Special Forces ( a paramilitary unit which served as the Ngô family's de facto private army ) and the Cần Lao political apparatus ( also known as the Personalist Labor Party ) which served as the regime's de facto secret police.

He served as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, reaching the rank of Captain and serving as assistant naval aide and then naval aide to President Truman, for whom he became a trusted personal adviser and friend.

Macmillan served as Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement.

Prior to that, he was a noted New York municipal bond lawyer, director of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends ; after his tenure as Attorney General, he served as director of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign.

He served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives as a Whig representative from Sangamon County.

* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district

He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative.

Officially, his post was that of First Secretary to the British Embassy ; in reality, he served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington.

Michael Cuddyer served as the Twins representative at the All-Star game, his first appearance.

In 1908, Pacelli served as a Vatican representative on the International Eucharistic Congress, accompanying Rafael Merry del Val to London, where he met Winston Churchill.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Ernst Jaakson, the longest-serving foreign diplomatic representative to the United States, served as vice-consul from 1934, and as consul general in charge of the Estonian legation in the United States from 1965 until reestablishment of Estonia's independence.

While he was serving in Whampoa, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guandong-Guanxi, and served as the CCP representative with the rank of major-general.

He served as the king's representative in Aquitaine, where he and Joan kept a court which was considered among the most brilliant of the time.

Pierce's father once served as a government representative on ocean-going cargo ships and sent reports back to Washington, D. C .; he later became manager of an insurance agency but was killed in a car accident in 1942.

As a member of the National Assembly, Jospin served first as a representative of Paris ( 1978 – 86 ), and then of Haute-Garonne département ( 1986 – 88 ).

The Defender featured letters and poetry sent in from successful recent migrants ; these writings " served as representative anecdotes, supplying readers with prototype examples … that characterized the migration campaign ".

With the help of some people within the GPL community, who apparently had connections with Spanish broadcasting companies, the track ( along with the 69 mod ) served as a representative retrospective view of the former Spanish GP track during the broadcast of the Spanish GP 2007, with Sir Jackie Stewart commenting on a full on-board lap.

Henry served as a representative to the Virginia convention of 1788, where he argued against ratifying the U. S. Constitution, on the grounds that it gave too much power to the federal government.

Hill served as the driver representative on the stewards panel at the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix where he and the rest of the panel decided to relegate former rival Michael Schumacher for overtaking under yellow flag conditions.

Martin previously served as ambassador to Thailand and as U. S. representative to SEATO.

His uncle, Habibullah Karzai, served as representative of Afghanistan at the UN and is said to have accompanied King Zahir Shah in the early 1960s to the United States for a special meeting with U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

After May 1968, Papon was elected as a representative ( député ) in the French legislature, and served several terms.

In Aztec religion, Painal ( also spelled Paynal or Painalton, " Little Painal "; also spelled Paynalton ;,, ) was a god ( teotl ) who served as a representative of Huitzilopochtli.

* Carter Glass, representative and Senator ( Democratic Party ) in the early 20th century, served as the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson

* Mickey Kantor served on Monsanto's board after serving in government as a trade representative.

It was named for early settler Lewis Dent, who served as the first representative.

Walberg previously served as Lenawee's state representative.

She served in elective office for eighteen years, as the Mayor of Juneau, as a state representative and as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, where she became a nationally recognized leader in election reform ( Alaska became the first state to replace the punched card system with an optical scanning ballot counting system ) and making government more efficient and accessible through telecommunications.