He served as president of the Continental Congress.

The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.

Governors of the 18 provinces were appointed by and served at the pleasure of the president.

He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

Johnson's position that the best interests of the Union were served by slavery in some areas made him a practical compromise candidate for president.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

Throughout the authoritarian period, tensions often existed between the High Command and the five generals who served as president.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

The first Portalian president was General Joaquín Prieto, who served two terms ( 1831 – 1836, 1836 – 1841 ).

Millikan served as " Chairman of the Executive Council " ( effectively Caltech's president ) from 1921 to 1945, and his influence was such that the Institute was occasionally referred to as " Millikan's School.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Ernest joined Textron after 29 years at GE, where he had most recently served as vice president and general manager, global supply chain for GE Aviation.

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

This was the first fraternity to incorporate, and he served as its first international president.

She served as president of the New York branch.

In 1961, Eisenhower became the first U. S. president to be constitutionally prevented from running for re-election to the office, having served the maximum two terms allowed.

Several women who were not presidents ' wives have served as First Lady, as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the First Lady herself.

He served as president of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank ; and as chargé d ' affaires for the Dominican Republic.

He also served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.

He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.

From 1920 Eisenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall.

After the war, Fermi served for a short time on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific committee chaired by J. Robert Oppenheimer which advised the commission on nuclear matters and policy.

For example, J. B. Clark saw the co-ordinating function in production and distribution as being served by entrepreneurs ; Frank Knight introduced managers who co-ordinate using their own money ( financial capital ) and the financial capital of others.

H. J. Heinz was incorporated in 1905, and Heinz served as its first president, remaining in the position for the rest of his life.

H. J. Heinz was incorporated in 1905, and Heinz served as its first president, remaining in the position for the rest of his life.

In the USA Major Christian J. Lambertsen, who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician, invented an underwater free-swimming oxygen rebreather in 1939.

In a letter to the Washington Evening Star published after the explosion, Muenter writing under an assumed name, said he hoped that the detonation would “ make enough noise to be heard above the voices that clamor for war .” J. P. Morgan ’ s company served as Great Britain ’ s principal U. S. purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies.

He then served under Thomas J.

His father was a friend of John Singleton Mosby, the noted cavalry leader of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War who served first under J. E. B.

Pinkerton served in several undercover missions under the alias of Major E. J.

In 1905 when applying for a pension he wrote to J. R. Magrath, the then Vice Chancellor, that during the seven years when he had served as manager of the Bible Warehouse the sales of the London Business had averaged about £ 20, 000 and the profits £ 1, 887 per year.

* The character Mull Pasha that is played by Dr. J. W. Müller is loosely based on the real life European military leader who served on one Middle country: John Bagot Glubb also known as " Glubb Pasha " who led the Arab Legion in Jordan.

The chief officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary was its Inspector-General ( the last of whom, Sir Thomas J. Smith served from 11 March 1920 until partition in 1922 ).

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; Tamil: அவ ு ல ் பக ி ர ் ஜ ை ன ு லப ் த ீ ன ் அப ் த ு ல ் கல ா ம ்; born 15 October 1931 ) usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India.

Warren served as supervisor of the EDVAC project ; central to his discussion are J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and their disagreements with administrators over patent rights ; discusses John von Neumann's 1945 draft report on the EDVAC, and its lack of proper acknowledgment of all the EDVAC contributors.

), during part of the Voyager Program ( space probes launched in 1977 ), and he served as the Director of the J. P. L.

In the offseason, the Bulls lost B. J. Armstrong in the expansion draft, but Krause pulled off a masterful deal by trading Will Perdue to the San Antonio Spurs for the aggressive and often controversial rebounding specialist Dennis Rodman, who had won the past four rebounding titles, and who had also been a member of the Detroit Pistons ' " Bad Boys " squad that served as the Bulls ' chief nemesis in the late 1980s.

The Albert J. Ellis Airport is located near Richlands and is served by two commercial airlines.

Peter J. Barber, an architect, designed many Late Victorian style residences, and served twice as mayor, in 1880 and again in 1890.

Notably, Mary Pryor, who was T. J. Pryor's daughter in-law & wife of Roger, served as Postmistress from 1938-1972.

He also went to Mexico where he served under Gen. John J. Pershing in the Army's campaign against Pancho Villa.

McCook is served by the Lyons School District 103 and J.

Thomas J. Nichols served as the village ’ s first president.

* B. J. Penn ( U. S. Navy ), briefly served as United States Secretary of the Navy in 2009

* Dr. David J. Loring Residence and Clinic Built in 1906, this house served Dr. Loring as a home and a business.