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He won the seat two years after graduating from the University of Alabama, where he had been elected President of the Student Government Association, defeating the fraternity political party ," The Machine ".
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In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.
Johnson won the election by 2, 250 votes, some of which were Whig votes received in return for his promise to support Nathaniel Taylor for his prior seat in Congress.
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.
There, the Liberals won a seat in the London suburbs for the first time since 1935.
Cadillac partisans, however, won the county seat by county-wide vote in April 1882.
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.
A friend and fellow White House aide, Christopher Cox, won a southern Orange County seat in the same election.
Republican James Sullivan won the governor's seat from Strong in 1807, but his successor was unable to hold the seat in the 1809 election, which went to Federalist Christopher Gore.
LaGuardia, running as a Republican, won a seat in Congress from the Italian stronghold of East Harlem in 1922 and served in the House until March 3, 1933.
At the July 2008 election the NDC won a comfortable 7 seat majority over the government of former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.
However, since there was no effective opposition party, these issues were contested mainly within the coalition government, which won all but one seat in the first post-independence Malayan Parliament.
The seat was created as a safe Liberal seat, and Holt won it easily.
The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the again renamed party won its first seat in parliament, the Dáil, when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South.
In the 1994 European Parliament election Patricia McKenna topped the poll for the Dublin Constituency and Nuala Ahern won a seat in Leinster.
In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South – East.
) Brian Wilson, formerly a councillor for the Alliance Party, won the Green Party's first seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2007 election.
Mary White won a seat for the first time in Carlow-Kilkenny however, Dan Boyle lost his seat in Cork South – Central leaving the party with the same number of TDs as before.
Instead he ran for and won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 1830 elections.
During the campaign, Polk's opponents said that at the age of 29 Polk was too young for a spot in the House, but he won the election and took his seat in Congress.
Although Marx won this contest, the transfer of the seat of the General Council from London to New York in 1872, which Marx supported, led to the decline of the International.
In the September 1955 election, it won about four percent of the vote but did not secure a seat in the legislature.
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With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.
A Junior who won two or more wins in the Open Class was eligible.
Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna ’ s farewell performance won ’ t be in it with yours, Poirot.
England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”
Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.
The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.
Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.
During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.
Roma have won Serie A three times, first in 1941 – 42 then in 1982 – 83 and again in 2000 – 01, as well as winning nine Coppa Italia titles and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.
In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.
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.
He won the majority of 120 seats in the parliament and agreed partnership with the party of the Muslim minorities-Movement for Rights and Freedoms in opposition against the two previously governing parties-the Socialist Party and the Democratic Forces.
Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.
Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.
Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.
The test series, however, went to South Africa, who won two of the three games.
The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.
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Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.
England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.
* In 406 BC, after years of defeats in the wake of the annihilation of their vast invasion force in Sicily, the Athenians at last won a naval victory at Arginusae over the Spartans.
AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).
A few years later Roma won their first Coppa Italia trophy in 1963 – 64, by beating Torino 1 – 0.
The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.
After a few years in the 2nd highest division, they won the qualifying tournament for the 2012-13 season.
After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.
The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.
For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".
The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.
The winner of the wild card has won the first round 7 out of the 11 years since the re-alignment and creation of the NLDS.
After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.
San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.
The Orioles won their 81st game on September 13, ending the streak of 14 straight years with a losing record, as well as ensuring that the team would spend the entire year with a record of. 500 or higher.
Under Selig's watch, the Brewers also won seven Organization of the Year awards, although they posted one of the worst winning percentages in the history of Major League Baseball, over periods of ten years or more.
Opus won that same privilege years after Calvin and Hobbes ended, while Wiley Miller circumvented further downsizings by making his Non Sequitur Sunday strip available only in an extremely vertical ( near-page-long ) arrangement.
The game won several major awards in the following years:
Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.
The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.
Under his watch, the Browns won the AAFC championship in all four years of its existence, including the AAFC's only perfect season in 1948, and continued to succeed after moving to the NFL in 1950.
That mark set an American League record for wins which stood for 44 years until the Yankees won 114 games in 1998 ( a 162-game regular season ).
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