* 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

Under orders from the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kaishek, the Hui General Ma Bufang, Governor of Qinghai ( 1937 – 1949 ), repaired Yushu airport to prevent Tibetan separatists from seeking independence.

* Ralph F. Gates ( 1891 – 1957 ), Governor of Indiana ( 1945 – 1949 ), was born in Columbia City and lived there throughout his life.

* Joyce Sutphen ( born 1949 ) was named in 2011 as the State's Poet Laureate by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.

* Gordon Browning, Governor of Tennessee, 1937 – 1939 and 1949 – 1953

*** Marshal Ye Jianying 葉劍英 / 叶剑英 ( 1897-1986 ; Meixian, Guangdong, Hakka pronunciation: Yap Kiam Yin ), Leader and general ; Chairman, National People's Congress, 1978 – 1983 ; President, People's Republic of China, 1978 – 1983 ; Governor of Guangdong, 1949 – 1953

In 1949, Abdullah entered secret peace talks with Israel, including at least five with Moshe Dayan, the Military Governor of West Jerusalem and other senior Israelis.

Six years later on May 17, 1949, Governor G. Mennen Williams signed the bill accepting Ferris Institute as a gift to the State of Michigan, which took over its governance on July 1, 1950.

Governor Earl Warren signed the bill in 1949, allocating $ 2 million for initial campus construction.

* Mugur Isărescu ( 1949 ), the Governor of the National Bank of Romania in Bucharest

* Jim Folsom, Jr. ( born 1949 ), former American Democratic Governor of Alabama, and who also served as the Lieutenant Governor both before and after that

In Canada, the 1949 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the thirteenth such awards.

Sidney Sanders McMath ( June 14, 1912October 4, 2003 ) was a decorated U. S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas ( 1949 – 1953 ) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.

The Youth Governor ’ s Conference, established in 1949, serves as a weeklong national servant leadership training session for all students elected to serve as Governor ( or in some cases Chief Justice or Secretary General ) of their state programs.

In 1949 he replaced Lucius D. Clay who was the Military Governor for the U. S. Zone in Germany as the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany and held this position until 1952, during which time he oversaw the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany.

After volunteering for two years in the United States Navy, Crosby served as Nebraska's Lieutenant Governor from 1947 to 1949.

Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri, who led the Operation Polo was appointed the Military Governor of Hyderabad ( 1948 – 1949 ) to restore law and order.

Robert Lee " Bob " Holden, Jr. ( born August 26, 1949 ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 53rd Governor of Missouri.

The term " Northeast Kingdom " is attributed to the late George D. Aiken, former Governor of Vermont and a U. S. Senator, who first used the term in a 1949 speech.

In 1949, Brennan was appointed to the Superior Court ( a trial court ) by Governor of New Jersey Alfred E. Driscoll.

William Ross Macdonald, ( December 25, 1891 – May 28, 1976 ), served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1968 to 1974, and as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1949 to 1953.

* May 17-Albert Edward Matthews, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( d. 1949 )

In 1949, Adlai Stevenson was divorced by his wife, Ellen Borden Stevenson.

* Robert Lindsay, the stage and television actor probably best known for his parts in Citizen Smith and latterly My Family, was born as Robert Lindsay Stevenson in Ilkeston on 13 December 1949.

Robert Lindsay ( born Robert Lindsay Stevenson on 13 December 1949 ) is an English actor best known for his television work, including his roles as Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Ian Frazier in Wimbledon and Ben Harper in My Family.

Following the war, Stevenson became the educational director for the Workers Co-op in northern Ontario and was also a political organizer for the Labor-Progressive Party and ran for the party in Timmins in the 1949 federal election.

Under governor Adlai Stevenson II, he served as the state's Secretary of Labor from 1949 to 1952.

* Robert Lindsay ( actor ) ( Robert Stevenson, born 1949 ), English actor

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

On March 17, 1949, he and General Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr. testified before the President ’ s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.

After attending an Oral Roberts tent meeting in Dallas ( 1949 ), Allen testified that as he left that meeting he hoped to form a healing ministry and asked his church board to allow him to start a radio program.

Then Ike Williams testified that his manager was offered $ 30, 000 for him to throw a championship fight against Freddy Dawson in Philadelphia on December 5 of 1949, in which he declined.

In July 1949, he testified before a Senate subcommittee that was considering rules governing the operation of Senate committees.

Massing testified to that episode at Alger Hiss ' second trial in November 1949.

Witt later testified in February 1949 before a federal grand jury investigating illegal CPUSA activities in the United States.

In 1949 the Four Home Unions combined formally to create a Tours Committee and for the first time, every player of the 1950 Lions squad was an international before the New Zealand series.

The Blues transitioned to the straight-wing Grumman F9F-2 Panther on 13 July 1949, wherein the F8F-1 " Beetle Bomb " was relegated to solo aerobatics before the main show, until it crashed on takeoff at a training show in Pensacola in 1950.

Contrary to popular belief John Hugenholtz cannot be credited with the design of the Zandvoort track, although he was involved as the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club chairman ( the Dutch Auto Racing Club ) before becoming the first track director in 1949.

The unit was later renamed as the Cavalry Regiment " President's Escort " before receiving its current title in 1949.

Just before moving into there, Thomas rented " Pelican House " opposite his regular drinking den, Brown's Hotel, for his parents who lived there from 1949 until 1953.

In the summer of 1949, he courted Sonia Brownell, and they announced their marriage in September, shortly before he was removed to University College Hospital in London.

Annotated edition of 11 diaries kept by the English writer, beginning in late August 1931 and ending in September 1949, a few months before his death.

On 21 November 1949 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before 1 January 1952.

A truce began on 11 June, but fighting resumed on 8 July and stopped again on 18 July, before restarting in mid-October and finally ending on 24 July 1949 with the signing of the armistice agreement with Syria.

Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949 ; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York.

Her parents immigrated to the United States from China in 1949 and settled in Ohio in 1958, one year before Maya Lin was born.

Siam is an exonym that was used as the name of Thailand before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949 ; see History of Thailand.

The Presidential Building in Nanjing before 1949.

Because of this, all British North America Acts dated before 1949 were passed by the British Parliament, while some of those dated after 1949 were passed by the Canadian Parliament.

Melbourne's tram usage peaked at 260 million trips in 1949, before dropping sharply to 200 million the following year in 1950.

** Republic of China ( 1912 – 1949 ) for the state which existed on mainland China before its relocation to Taiwan and the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Gorton ( middle ) in 1951Although Gorton had been a member of the Country Party before the war, in 1949 he was elected to the Senate for the Liberal Party.

* Revivals: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in 1999 became the first show ( play or musical ) to win as Best Production in four different years, Best play at the 1949 awards, Best Revival at the 1984 awards ( before the Best Revival award was split into two categories for Play and Musical in 1994 ), and Best Revival of a Play at the 1999 and 2012 awards.

Like many Chinese men before 1949, Yuan used and was referred to by many different names.

The current president Ma Ying-Jeou advocates as well for the revitalization of Chinese culture, as in the re-introduction of Traditional Chinese in texts to mainland China used in Taiwan and historically in China before the communist revolution in 1949.

Komarov's mother died in 1948, seven months before his graduation ( in 1949 ) at which he received his pilots wings and commission as a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force.

* The Morey Amsterdam Show, a comedy / variety show hosted by Morey Amsterdam, which started on CBS before moving to DuMont in 1949

The ROC, which took control of Taiwan ( including Penghu and other nearby islands ) in 1945, ruled mainland China and claimed sovereignty over Outer Mongolia ( now Mongolia ) and Tannu Uriankhai ( part of which is present day Tuva, Russia ) before losing the Chinese Civil War and relocating its government to Taipei, Taiwan in December 1949.