His first taste of ministerial office came in 1924, when he served as Under-Secretary of State for War in the short-lived first Labour government, led by MacDonald.

Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, which Flores Magón considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in Baja California during the " Magónista " Revolt of 1911

He also served as deputy prime minister in John Turner's short-lived government.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (; born October 4, 1943, as Hubert Gerold Brown ), also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived ( six months ) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice.

Sonoma served as the capital of the short-lived California Republic until the United States Stars and Stripes flag was raised during the Mexican-American war.

On March 24, 1884, Olive Hill incorporated as a city and served as the county seat of the short-lived Beckham County from February 9 to April 29, 1904.

Beginning in 1865, the trail served as the route for the short-lived Butterfield Overland Despatch.

After World War II, Halle served as the capital of the short-lived administrative region of Saxony-Anhalt, this was until 1952 when the East German government abolished its " Länder " ( states ).

An opponent of fox hunting, he is an outspoken critic of the European Union, and served as chairman of the short-lived anti-immigration United Country Party, before becoming a patron of the UK Independence Party.

Though short-lived, it served as an important milestone in Norwegian politics, both because it marked the conclusion of the bitter and divisive debate over Norway's membership in the European Union, and because it was a centrist non-socialist coalition.

Though short-lived, this addition served to regularize pronunciations.

Charest served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Science and Technology in Campbell's short-lived cabinet.

Abdul-Wahab Mirjan ( 1909 – 1964 ) () served as prime minister of Iraq ( December 15, 1957 – March 3, 1958 ) at the time of that country's short-lived union with Jordan, which was formalized on February 14, 1958.

Later in the decade, Hovis teamed up with Gary Bernstein to form Bernstein-Hovis Productions, which produced the game shows Anything For Money, the original version of Lingo and the short-lived Yahtzee, a TV version of the classic dice game, for which Hovis also announced and served as a regular panelist.

He served one two-year stint as chair of the Senate Finance Committee following a short-lived Democratic majority.

Isabela City then came under the short-lived administration of Vice Mayor Rodolfo Y. Tan, who served the remainder of Biel's term, relinquishing his post after having been defeated in the May 2007 local elections.

He served in East Africa, but returned to Britain in 1944 due to poor health, and launched the short-lived National Front after Victory Group, a coalition that included the British Peoples Party.

Additionally, Walker served as a Boston agent and a writer for New York's short-lived but influential Freedom's Journal, the first abolitionist newspaper published by blacks in the United States.

The MDR built its own three-platform station to the north of the GWR one, although, following the installation of a connection between the two railways to the east of the stations, MDR trains also served the GWR station from 1 March 1883, on a short-lived service running to station, which was withdrawn as unremunerative on 30 September 1885.

The Los Angeles-to-San Diego portion of the Pacific Surfliner route was once served by the Santa Fe's San Diegan passenger trains ( see " Operations " below ) until Amtrak took over the route in the 1970s keeping the " San Diegan " moniker until the Pacific Surfliner name was bestowed on the route on June 1, 2000, as part of a new marketing campaign ( and short-lived new casual-style uniforms for crew ) reflecting the line's more frequent service north of Los Angeles and new bi-level cars with unique livery manufactured by Alstom that replaced Horizon cars, bi-level California Cars manufactured by Morrison-Knudson, and the Amfleet cars previously assigned to the route.

For a brief time following Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on records by acts as diverse as The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst former singer Lorita Grahame lent her vocals to a record released by short-lived One Little Indian act Hit the Roof ( on a cover of Edwin Starr's " Contact ").

During the short-lived Clark government, Mazankowski served as Minister of Transport.

As a member of the first West Florida judiciary, he took part in the 1810 West Florida rebellion against Spain, and served as the president of the short-lived Republic of West Florida.

His son, the eighth Viscount, served as Lord Lieutenant of County Wicklow and was a member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland.

Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg was Minister of Education and served briefly as chair of the short-lived Commission on Nationality Affairs.

He previously served as Minister of Justice from July 6, 1971, until September 8, 1977, in the Cabinets Biesheuvel I, II and Den Uyl.

From June 25, 1959 to July 24, 1963, De Jong served State Secretary for Defence in the Cabinet de Quay and immediately thereafter Minister of Defence in the successive Cabinets Marijnen, Cals and Zijlstra.

He previously served as Minister of Economic Affairs from September 2, 1952 until May 19, 1959 in the Cabinets Drees III, IV and Beel II.

He previously served as a Member of the House of Representatives from August 19, 1948 until March 15, 1950, when he became State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science serving from March 15, 1950 until September 2, 1952 in the Cabinets Drees-Van Schaik and Drees I.

He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery.

Peter Gerald Hain ( born 16 February 1950 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Neath since 1991, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Bos served as opposition leader during the parliamentary period of the Cabinets Balkenende II and III.

He served as Minister of Labour in the Cabinets of Maurice Duplessis and Paul Sauvé from August 30, 1944 to January 8, 1960.

He served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III.

He served earlier as Minister of Finance in the Cabinets Kok I and II from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002.

In the two Cabinets of Paavo Lipponen ( 1995 – 2003 ), Siimes served as the Coordinate Minister for Culture ( 1998 – 1999 ) and as the Minister of Finance ( 1999 – 2003 ).

During his time as TD he served in the Cabinets of Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass as Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Local Government, and Minister for Social Welfare.

He served as Minister of Defense from September 11, 1981 until November 4, 1982 in the Cabinets van Agt II and III.

O ' Toole served in both Cabinets of Garret FitzGerald in the 1980s, retaining his Dáil seat until he lost it at the 1987 general election.

He served as an opposition backbencher until June 1999, when he was appointed to the coalition Cabinets of Geoffrey Henry and Joe Williams.

After Ukraine's Orange Revolution, Tarasyuk became foreign minister again on 4 February 2005, and served in the Cabinets of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Viktor Yanukovych.

Naik was subsequently largely marginalised in state politics, while Souza served under Rane in some of his Cabinets.

He served in the Cabinets of Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell as Minister of Labour from 1989 to 1991, Minister of State ( Transport ) from 1990 to 1991, and Minister of Transport from 1991 to 1993.

He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 3, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III.