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.

Elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress ( March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837 ), he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

He was elected as an Adams candidate to the United States House of Representatives from 1827 to 1832 ( the Twentieth, as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses ).

He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian U. S. Representative from Massachusetts 10th District to the Twenty-second Congress ( 1831 – 1833 ).

He was born in Virginia, studied medicine in Baltimore, Maryland ; moved to Howard County, Missouri, and settled near Glasgow, Missouri ; engaged in the practice of medicine ; studied theology ; was ordained to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that locality ; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri ; presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828 ; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third Congress ( March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 ); resumed his ministerial duties and also the practice of medicine ; died near Rothville, Missouri, Chariton County, Missouri, in February 1863 ; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville.

Isaac Southard ( born August 30, 1783 ) was an Anti-Jacksonian member of the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1833, representing New Jersey at-large.

Southard was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second United States Congress, and began his term on March 4, 1831.

William Hendricks ( November 12, 1782 – May 16, 1850 ) was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U. S. Senate from 1825 to 1837.

Back in Congress in 1825, Hendricks was an Anti-Jacksonian, supporting federal funding for western internal improvements.

He was elected to the 21st United States Congress ( March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831 ) as an Anti-Jacksonian, was defeated for reelection in 1830.

He was, however, elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 24th Congress ( March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837 ), and was elected as a Whig to the 26th and 27th Congresses ( March 4, 1839 to March 5, 1841 ).

He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress.

Claiborne also served in the Virginia State Senate from 1821 to 1825 and was an executive councilor before being elected a Jacksonian and Anti-Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1824, serving from 1825 to 1837.

He was again elected as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress, and served from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833.

In 1836, Spence was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian ( later Whig ) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert H. Goldsborough.

He was again elected to the United States Senate as an Anti-Jacksonian ( later Whig ) to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ezekiel F. Chambers, and served from January 13, 1835 until his death at " Myrtle Grove " near Easton.

In 1836, Bayard was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of U. S. Senator Arnold Naudain.

Horace Binney ( January 4, 1780 – August 12, 1875 ) was an American lawyer who served as an Anti-Jacksonian in the United States House of Representatives.

A large Anti-Jacksonian majority was also elected to the Delaware General Assembly.