After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

" However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom ( that is, the monarch in his British council ) until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government and the passage in 1931 of the Statute of Westminster, the governor general became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Canadian sovereign ( the monarch in his Canadian council ).

Although his Senate term began on March 4, 1931, Long completed the remainder of his four-year term as governor.

In October 1931, Lieutenant Governor Cyr, by then Long's avowed enemy, argued that the Senator-elect could no longer remain governor.

* Flem D. Sampson, Kentucky governor ( 1927 – 1931 )

The election of Republican William O ' Connell Bradley in 1895 began the only period of true two party competition for the governorship ; from Bradley's election through 1931, five Republicans and six Democrats held the office of governor of Kentucky.

Since 1931, only three Republicans have served as governor of Kentucky ; Ernie Fletcher, who served from 2003 to 2007, was the most recent.

Governor Ruby Laffoon, elected in 1931, was the last governor of Kentucky nominated by a convention.

Between 1895 and 1931, five Republicans and six Democrats held the office of governor.

Dedicated in 1931, the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore F. Green.

As the 1931 gubernatorial election approached, Chandler and Prestonsburg native Jack Howard were mentioned as candidates for lieutenant governor.

During his career, Byrnes served as a US Representative ( 1911 – 1925 ), a US Senator ( 1931 – 1941 ), a Justice of the Supreme Court ( 1941 – 1942 ), Secretary of State ( 1945 – 1947 ), and 104th governor of South Carolina ( 1951 – 1955 ).

He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression.

William Denis Brown, III ( 1931 – 2012 ), a lawyer and a state senator from Monroe, was Edwards's floor leader in the upper legislative chamber in the first term as governor.

* Enrique Creel ( 1854 – 1931 ), a wealthy businessman and landowner, an influential member of the powerful Creel-Terrazas Family that dominated the northern state of Chihuahua, of which he was governor from 1904 until the fall of the Díaz regime in 1911.

His mother's uncle, James " Sunny Jim " Rolph, was mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1912 to 1931 and served as California's governor until his 1934 death in office ( The Politics of Truth 31 ).

Gifford Pinchot: Forester-Politician ( 1960 ) Republican governor 1923 – 1927 and 1931 – 1935

On November 2, 1926, he was elected in a landslide victory as the 26th governor of California and served from 1927 to 1931.

After retiring from Yale, Cross was elected governor of Connecticut as a Democrat in 1930 and served as Governor for four two-year terms, from 1931 to 1939.

He served as governor of Kansas from 1931 to 1933.

When Miller was inaugurated as governor on January 19, 1931, the State of Alabama was $ 20, 000, 000. 00 in debt.

The crisis came to redefine the role of governor general, not only in Canada but throughout the Dominions, becoming a major impetus in negotiations at Imperial Conferences held in the late 1920s that led to the adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

After 1931, the governor general remained an important figure in Canadian governance as a constitutional watchdog, but it is one that has shed its previous imperial duties.

In 1931, when Belbenoît sent a copy of his writings about the prison conditions to a new governor Bernard Siadous, he was transferred to the prison archive.

* 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer, landowner and survivor of RMS Titanic ( b. 1862 )

* Sir Herbert Samuel 1931 – 1935

In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.

All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).

Isaac Isaacs | Sir Isaac Isaacs, the first Australian-born Governor-General, 1931 – 1936

# 1931 – 1952 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper

* 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and landowner, survivor of RMS Titanic ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

* April 14 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1931

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

In 1931 Williams-Ellis bought from his uncle, Sir Osmund Williams, Bt, the Victorian crenellated mansion Castell Deudraeth with the intention of incorporating it into the Portmeirion hotel complex, but the intervention of the war and other problems prevented this.

Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.

This park was acquired by Ealing Borough Council as a recreation ground in 1931 from Sir

Tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton came to Southgate from Muswell Hill in 1892, and lived in a house called Osidge until his death in 1931.

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General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.

Sir John Monash died in Melbourne on 8 October 1931 and was given a state funeral.

* Sir Ernest MacMillan ( 1931 – 1956 )

In 1931, Sir Thomas Beecham was approached by the rising young conductor Malcolm Sargent with a proposal to set up a permanent, salaried orchestra with a subsidy guaranteed by Sargent's patrons, the Courtauld family.

* Sir Ian Holm ( born 1931 ), film, stage and television actor

Sir Ian Holm, CBE ( born 12 September 1931 ) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles.