Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

He donned the toga virilis four years later, and was elected to the College of Pontiffs in 47 BC.

These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.

As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

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In 2005 Hill was selected as a Fletcher Foundation Fellow.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

From 1960 to 1962 Sagan was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

In April, 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

Also in 2006, Cronenberg was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars.

In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and in 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and honored with the Norbert Wiener Award, which is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

He was also a visiting professor at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.

Knuth was elected as a Fellow ( first class of Fellows ) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 for his outstanding contributions to mathematics.

He visited England in 1724 and was the same year elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In April 2009 Hofstadter was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

" Fellow poet and critic Glyn Jones believed that any traces of cynghanedd in Thomas ' work was accidental, although he felt Thomas consciously employed one element of Welsh metrics ; that of counting syllables per line instead of feet.

Abbot was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.

After the war, he obtained a BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge ( 1945 ) and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1946 to 1949.

In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

In the same year, he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

He was also an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College and of University College, London.

In 1944 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, after he was nominated for membership by Keynes.

In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.