This may not be the greatest but it certainly comes close to being the greatest lesson Sam Rayburn's career, up to this hour, teaches all of us who would aspire to distinction in political life under our processes of government.

The incident, aside from reflecting on Welch's political career, had all but wrecked his home life.

His political career goes back to his election to city council in 1923.

I'm willing to stake my political career on it ''.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English language daily the The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

Disraeli had been considering a political career as early as 1830, before he departed England for the Mediterranean.

The split in the Tory / Conservative party over the repeal of the Corn Laws had profound implications for Disraeli's political career: almost every Conservative politician with official experience followed Peel, leaving the rump bereft of leadership.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Jim Borgman had graduated from Kenyon before Watterson arrived, but his work as a political cartoonist so impressed Bill that he decided to pursue a career as one himself.

Although this can be seen as social commentary, Chaplin's films did not contain overt political themes or messages until later on his career in the 1930s.

His political career in the federal cabinet was unique in that he had served four ministerial posts in the years between 1953 and 1969.

The ancient Roman concept of virtus ( i. e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career ), which Cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late Republic, meant little to them.

The office of Tribune of the Plebs was an important step in the political career of plebeians.

Currently, political power is shared by a Somali president and an Afar prime minister, with an Afar career diplomat as Foreign Minister and other cabinet posts roughly divided.

The political career of Vespasian included the offices of quaestor, aedile and praetor, and culminated with a consulship in 51, the year of Domitian's birth.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

Where his political and military career had ended in disappointment, Domitian's private affairs were more successful in 70.

One significant episode in David's political career that earned him a great deal of contempt was the execution of Emilie Chalgrin.

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / DAP German Workers Party, which was soon renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers Party ) or Nazi Party in Munich.

Although the project started in 1958, Chaplin only received his star in 1970 because of his political views.

Chaplin was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1970, after having been excluded due to his political beliefs when the project was initially started in 1958.

Already in January 1962 he banned all political parties except his own PPT, and started immediately concentrating all power in his own hands.

What started as an elitist political movement against their colonial master, finally ended as a full-fledged civil war between pro-Independence Criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist Criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile.

In 1980, after Tito's death, economic, political, and religious difficulties started to mount and the federal government began to crumble.

In 2004, with the environmental movement seemingly stalled, some environmentalists started questioning whether " environmentalism " was even a useful political framework.

The national cuisine started forming in the Middle Ages due to the influence of the work of skilled chefs and various social and political movements.

He started his political career during World War II.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

* 1898 – The Hundred Days ' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days.

After the war ended Sartre established Les Temps Modernes ( Modern Times ), a quarterly literary and political review, and started writing full-time as well as continuing his political activism.

The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.

It is one of only two sovereign states in the world that were started by citizens of a political power as a colony for former slaves of the same political power: Sierra Leone was begun as a colony for resettlement of Black Loyalists and poor blacks from England for the same purpose by Britain.

Leszek Miller started his political career as an activist of the Socialist Youth Union, where he held the position of Chairman of the Plant Board, soon becoming a member of the Town Committee.

With granted Party ’ s recommendation, he started political sciences studies at the Party ’ s Higher School of Political Sciences ( Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych ), graduating in 1977.

In early August, Germany and the Soviet Union worked out the last details of their economic deal, and started to discuss a political alliance.

This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2001 and the Union of Social-Democrats in 2007.

Some of them were caught and punished by Carthage, aggravating the political climate which had started to improve in recognition of the old alliance and treaties.

Giuliani started his political life as a Democrat.

Punks, political activists, musicians and artists also started squatting in " The Gunnery ", a former Navy warehouse and training facility, in Woolloomooloo, during the early-to-mid 1980s.

Dean started her political career by organizing the Bonita-Berryman Neighborhood Association, which led to her appointment in 1971 to the city's Planning Commission.

In 2003, South Korean Unification Church members started a political party, " The Party for God, Peace, Unification, and Home.