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 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.

After the end of the war, New Orleans served as the seat of the Reconstruction-era state government.

He was the first Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction-era governor Adelbert Ames, who served from 1874 to 1876.

Hyman was elected to the North Carolina Senate, where he served from 1868 to 1874 in the Reconstruction-era legislature.

He served in Washington, D. C. from June 1863 to August 1865, first at the Contraband Hospital and then at the Freedman's Hospital.

" In 1903, African-American businesswoman and financier Maggie L. Walker chartered St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, and served as its first president, as well as the first female bank president in the United States.

In addition to his judicial duties, he served as president of the Ulster County Savings Institution from 1896 to 1904.

He also served on the Board of Directors of Yakima Federal Savings.

Morris served as governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank from 1889 to 1913 and was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1885 as an independent.

He served on the Committee for the Leeds, Skyrac and Morley Savings Bank Board of Managers and Leeds Library Committee.

* 1956 to 1977, Othman served as an executive in the International Banking Department at Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, Illinois, as Vice President and Division Administrator of the International Money Management Division, including the International Economic Research Unit.

He later established the Seattle Electric company, was a director of the Seattle Savings Bank, and served as a state senator.

He also served as president of the Cardon Jewelry Company and of the National Glass Distributors Association ; vice-president of Glayton Investment Company and of the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association ; and director of Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, the Utah Oil Refining Company, and the Utah Home Fire Insurance Company.

After his Senate term, Seymour served as director of the California Housing Finance Agency for two years, and later served as CEO of the nonprofit Southern California Housing Development Corporation and on the boards of directors of several housing-related companies including IndyMac Bank, Orange Coast Title Insurance, Los Angeles Federal Savings Bank, and Irvine Apartment Communities.

When the United States joined the War, he became the director of the National War Savings Committee for the State of New Jersey ; served abroad as advisor to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, as a member of the Military Board of Allied Supply and as a civilian aide.

In addition to being mayor, Gatzert was charter member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, served on the Seattle City Council 1872 – 1873 and 1877 – 1878, was president of Puget Sound National Bank and Peoples Savings Bank, and co-founded Washington's second synagogue ( Seattle's first ), Ohaveth Shalom, which opened in 1892.

Harrington served as President of the People ’ s Loan, Savings and Deposit Bank of Cambridge, Maryland, and also as the President of the President of the Annapolis-Claiborne Ferry Company, that he had established as Governor, until operations were taken over by the state.

He retired from politics in 1906, and served as Chairman of the Commissioners of the State Savings Bank of Victoria until his death in 1916.

He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association ( becoming its first president ), became president of National Bank of Commerce, and served on the board of directors of eight railroads.

He served as director of Howard Savings Bank in Livingston, New Jersey.

Wales both drafted the by-laws of the Savings Bank in 1832 and served as the president of the National Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine from 1824 to 1829.

In 1912 the Stanislaviv-based Savings and Credit Union opened a branch in Buchach, and this served as a bank for local industrialists and business.

Since 1986, Ken has served as a Richmond Savings Credit Union director, and from 1995 to 1998, he served as chair.

He was also the owner and president of the Deposit Savings and Loan Bank in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina ; when the bank merged in 1936 with several other banks and formed the " Northwestern Bank ," Doughton briefly served as the new bank's director.

He returned to Albany where he worked as a brewer, became director of the National Savings Bank of Albany, and served as fire commissioner of Albany 1869-1878.

He was made Chairman of the National Savings Committee in 1926, a post he served in until 1943, the same year he became Vice-President.