Born into poverty, he was elected emir upon the abdication of his predecessor, and would rule under Ottoman suzerainty, being appointed wali or governor of Mt Lebanon, the Biqa valley and Jabal Amil.

Under Decius he was nominated governor of the Rhine provinces of Noricum and Raetia and retained the confidence of his predecessor, Trebonianus Gallus, who asked him for reinforcements to quell the rebellion of Aemilianus in 253.

As a reward, Blood is appointed the new governor of the colony and has the pleasure to deal with his hostile predecessor, now in serious trouble for dereliction of duty, and finally wins the hand and heart of Arabella.

Ahmed Asım Bey's predecessor was his son ; Mehmed Nebil Bey ( Born in Istanbul, 1888 ) who also served as a governor during Ottoman Empire in Syria.

In the 17th century, the governor of Smallingerland-the predecessor current day's mayor-was located in Oudega, which had taken over the annual fairs from Smalle Ee.

In each instance, he succeeded the governor who died in office and completed the term of his predecessor.

In 1755 Hopkins was elected to his first term as governor, defeating his predecessor, William Greene by a small margin.

Haslam and his predecessor, Phil Bredesen, both were independently wealthy before taking office and refused to accept state salaries for their service as governor.

One of the chief differences between the 1834 constitution and its predecessor was considerably greater powers being granted to the executive branch generally and the governor in particular than in the earlier document.

* Gaius Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus, praetor in 80 BC, and afterwards governor of Sicily ; the mildness and justice of his administration was contrasted with that of his predecessor, and subsequently that of Verres.

Though Drew was the third person to be elected governor, he was the fourth in office because his predecessor, Samuel Adams, had served as acting governor during much of 1844, having gained the office through the previous position as president of the Arkansas State Senate.

Wicker ran for the remainder of Lott's term in the November 2008 special election against Ronnie Musgrove, Barbour's predecessor as governor.

Currently, his predecessor as governor, Republican George Ryan, is also serving a prison sentence of 6 1 / 2 years as a result of the ( commercial ) " licenses-for-bribes " scandal at the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, Indiana.

Minner was Delaware ’ s fourth consecutive two term governor and largely continued the business oriented policies and bipartisan, consensus style begun by her Republican predecessor, Pierre S. du Pont, IV.

During his final months as governor, Cahill named his predecessor, Richard J. Hughes, a Democrat, as chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Patricio Patrón is the first governor of the state of Yucatán who emanated from the National Action Party ( PAN ), through a coalition with the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ), the Labor Party ( PT ) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico ( PVEM ), despite the contempt and the campaign organized against him by his predecessor Víctor Cervera, defeated his opponent of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ), Orlando Paredes Lara in the election that took place in 2001 by a wide margin, largely thanks to the program " Adopt a City " that was implemented by pianist Ermilo Castilla Roche.

In 1993, after his predecessor Carlo Azeglio Ciampi left office to become the Italian Prime Minister, he became governor of the Bank of Italy.

In 1938, Murphy was defeated by his predecessor, Fitzgerald, who became the only governor from Michigan to succeed and precede the same person.

He became Attorney-General in 1900 and was asked by the lieutenant governor to become premier of the province on December 29, 1901 after his predecessor had resigned to enter federal politics.

Prior to 29 July 1977, it was an established convention, but not a constitutional requirement, that the state parliament choose ( or the governor appoint ) a replacement from the same political party as their predecessor.

As governor and thereafter, Edwards developed a close friendship with his Democratic predecessor, John West, whom he had earlier accused of undermining the Haynsworth nomination.

He served as chair of the Texas Highway Commission under his predecessor governor, Dan Moody.

He was serving as speaker of the Tennessee State Senate in 1869 when the state legislature elected his predecessor as governor, William G. Brownlow, to the United States Senate ( the way U. S. Senators were chosen prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment ), elevating him to the governor's office.

Casa Milà was a predecessor of some buildings with a similar biomorphic appearance:

Ealdred was probably born in the west of England, and could be related to Lyfing, his predecessor as bishop of Worcester.

A predecessor of the WW2 German " 88 " anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

He was responsible for much of the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after emulating his predecessor.

Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.

Saint Anthony was on a journey in the desert to find his predecessor, Saint Paul of Thebes.

Saint Anthony had been under the impression that he was the first person to ever dwell in the desert ; however, due to a vision, Saint Anthony was called into the desert to find his predecessor, Saint Paul.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

In 1763, The Reverend James Manning, a Baptist minister, and an alumnus of the College of New Jersey ( predecessor to today's Princeton University ), was sent to Rhode Island by the Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches in order to found the college.

In 1928, BCG was adopted by the Health Committee of the League of Nations ( predecessor to the WHO ).

The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.

It was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ), the teleprinter code in use until the advent of ASCII.

Audrey Elkington who was installed in August 2011 ; her predecessor was the Ven.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Communists.

The follow-up to " Don't Dream it's Over ", " Something So Strong ", was not as successful as its predecessor but reached the top ten in New Zealand, America and Canada.