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He unsuccessfully sought a seat in the New York State Assembly against future Congressman Brian Higgins ( where Griffin was defeated by Higgins in his home base of South Buffalo for the only time in his elector career ) and was rumored to have an interest in a seat in the Erie County Legislature that was vacated in 2001, although in the end he did not run.
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Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.
For the next four years he unsuccessfully sought the governorship of Massachusetts.
With the signing of the Geneva Accords, President Najibullah unsuccessfully sought to end the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan's isolation within the Islamic world and in the Non-Aligned Movement.
Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.
During trial, Ribbentrop unsuccessfully sought to deny his role in the war.
Tarquin unsuccessfully sought to take the Rutulian capital Ardea by storm, and subsequently began an extensive siege of the city.
Walter Mondale ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984, served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 – 96, and then sought unsuccessfully to return to the Senate in 2002.
He unsuccessfully sought a second two-year term in an 1875 election.
Hollings unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1984.
MacArthur's father and grandfather unsuccessfully sought to secure Douglas a presidential appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, first from President Grover Cleveland and then from President William McKinley.
The period following this was marked by unemployment and poverty, with Proudhon travelling around France ( and also, briefly, to Neufchâtel, Switzerland ) where he unsuccessfully sought stable employment in printing and as a schoolteacher.
* 1960s ( developing ): The US unsuccessfully sought Australian permission to test Sarin and VX gas on 200 " mainly Australian " troops, probably in the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River, Queensland.
Prior to the setting up of Na Fianna in Dublin in 1909, it has now transpired that Lord Baden Powell had reportedly unsuccessfully sought the assistance of Patrick Pearse in setting up a branch of his Boy Scouts in Dublin.
Local detractors, with unfounded fears of casual communicability of AIDS, unsuccessfully sought to have its permitting revoked.
From 2005 to 2006 Rosselló unsuccessfully sought to remove Senate President Kenneth McClintock from his seat and replace him.
Later that year Rubinstein's mother sent him, accompanied by Villoing, to Paris where he sought unsuccessfully to enroll at the Paris Conservatoire.
Upon returning to Venice, Michiel was killed by an irate mob, but Dandolo escaped blame and was appointed as an ambassador to Constantinople in the following year, as Venice sought unsuccessfully to arrive at a diplomatic settlement of its disputes with Byzantium.
At the end of Winter War, he unsuccessfully sought audience with both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini but met only Pope Pius XII.
He fulfilled his loyalty to Katharine when they married on 25 June 1891 in Steyning Register Office, after Parnell had unsuccessfully sought a church wedding.
After consenting to the siege, the Nawab unsuccessfully sought to assist the French.
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, Smith unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president, advancing the cause of civil liberty by decrying lynching and racial violence.
In the 2006 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
In the early 1960s, he was a Conservative Party activist and sought, unsuccessfully, the seat of Edmonton in the 1964 general election.
He unsuccessfully sought intercession by his King Savang Vatthana, by his American sponsors, and by his friend Kong Le.
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Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.
He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.
At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.
In March 1935, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Victorian state Labor seat of Clifton Hill.
He also ran unsuccessfully for a seat in parliament and served as advisor to the committee that drafted the ill-fated democratic Weimar Constitution of 1919.
Weber also ran, unsuccessfully, for a parliamentary seat, as a member of the liberal German Democratic Party, which he had co-founded.
After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.
He denounced the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Sir John Kerr, and unsuccessfully stood for an Australian Capital Territory Senate seat at the 1975 election as an independent.
In the 1955 general election Kaufman had unsuccessfully contested the safe Conservative seat of Bromley, and in the 1959 general election, Gillingham.
In 1977, he ran unsuccessfully for Georgia's 5th Congressional District seat, losing to Congressman John Lewis.
After standing unsuccessfully for a Chamber of Deputies seat for the département of the Aisne constituency in 1865 and 1860, Waddington was returned by that constituency in the election of 1871.
Rather than seek reelection to the House, Sandlin ran unsuccessfully in the 1936 Democratic primary against Allen J. Ellender for an open seat in the U. S. Senate.
1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.
He stood as Conservative parliamentary candidate twice unsuccessfully, in the 1918 General Election for North East Derbyshire and in 1922 for West Derbyshire, before gaining the latter seat in 1923, holding it until succeeding to his father's peerage and entering the House of Lords in 1938.
Cavendish ran unsuccessfully as a National Liberal candidate for Chesterfield in the 1945 general election and as a Conservative in the same seat in 1950.
He unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the cantonal executive ( regenza ) in 1893.
He unsuccessfully contested the Western Isles constituency at the 1945 general election ( there was no Conservative Party in the seat, so his father appointed himself Association Chairman ).
As a coalitionist, Bennett was re-elected in 1945, but vacated the seat in 1948 in order to run, unsuccessfully, as Progressive Conservative candidate in the Yale federal by-election of that year.
At the 1955 general election, Ridley unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Blyth.
He made one last attempt to reclaim a Dáil seat, standing unsuccessfully in the Dublin South – West constituency at 1981 general election.
In February 2000 he resigned his membership of the Labour Party, citing its treatment of Ken Livingstone, and in support of Livingstone he fought unsuccessfully for a seat on the London Assembly as an Independent Green Left candidate.
His political career with the Labour Party began in 1924 when he stood, unsuccessfully, for Parliament in the Conservative safe seat of Birmingham Handsworth.
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