In the Senate, Kerr served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings ( Twenty-seventh Congress ), and as a member of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office ( Twenty-seventh Congress ).

Kerr's son, John Bozman Kerr, also served in Congress.

Kerr was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1849 until March 3, 1851, and was not a candidate for renomination in 1850.

He served as president of the Continental Congress.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Its top level divisions served as a basis for the Library of Congress classification, which also took over some of its features.

He was elected to the U. S. House under the new national government, and served in Congress from 1789 to 1793.

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.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

He was the first president to serve in Congress after his term of office, and one of only two former presidents to do so ( Andrew Johnson later served in the Senate ).

After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

In November 1781, Hanson became the first President of the Continental Congress to be elected for an annual term as specified in the Articles of Confederation, although Samuel Huntington and Thomas McKean had served in that office after the ratification of the Articles.

In 1967, Flynn served as a chairperson for the Congress for Racial Equality ( CORE ), a civil rights organization in the U. S. South.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis ( at left ) and his four brothers, two of whom served in Congress, as illustrated in 1908.

In 1908, Pacelli served as a Vatican representative on the International Eucharistic Congress, accompanying Rafael Merry del Val to London, where he met Winston Churchill.

He served as speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, chairman of the Virginia Conventions, and the first President of the Continental Congress.

He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U. S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Rolf Nevanlinna served as President of the International Mathematical Union, IMU, in 1959 – 63 and as President of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM, in 1962.

At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).

Jefferson served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress beginning in June 1775, soon after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Jefferson had also served on the committee appointed to draw up the rules of order for the Continental Congress in 1776.

He served two terms in the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1775, and 1782 – 1784 ).

Marshall Formby of Plainview, former chairman of the Texas Highway Commission, suggested a plan to fill by appointment future vacancies in the Legislature and Congress, eliminating the need for costly special elections.

The committee met repeatedly, and chairman John Dickinson presented their results to the Congress on July 12, 1776.

For example, the chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank is appointed by the President of the U. S. ( all nominees for this post are recommended by the owners of the Federal Reserve, as are all the board members ), his choice must be confirmed by the Congress, and he must appear and testify before congress twice a year.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

Everything came to a head in 1979 when Chrysler's new chairman, Lee Iacocca, requested and received federal loan guarantees from the United States Congress in an effort to save the company from having to file bankruptcy.

In the Senate, Thurman served on the Judiciary Committee, becoming its chairman when the Democrats won control of the Senate in the 46th Congress.

After his second term expired, he became the chairman of the National People's Congress.

A former general and diplomat, he was the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) and later led the Somali National Alliance ( SNA ).

" Congress responded by making Johnson chairman of a high-powered subcommittee of the Naval Affairs committee.

Magallanes ' chairman, Ernesto Alvear, attended a FIFA Congress held in Helsinki while the Finnish city was hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics.

These include current General Secretary, president Hu Jintao, the current vice president Xi Jinping, the current chairman of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo, former premier Zhu Rongji, and the former first vice premier Huang Ju.

However, he defeated Lovette in 1932 and returned to Congress, serving until 1947, when he stepped down to devote his full energies to serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee, a position he had held since 1946.

Johnson served as chairman of the Committee on Claims during the Eleventh Congress ( 1809 – 1811 ).

The company chairman is Edward R. Tinsley, III, a rancher in Lincoln County who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the 2008 general election.

" In response, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated, " It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail.

He was elected as a representative to Congress, serving from 1865 to 1873, when he held the positions of chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and sometimes as chair of the Republican caucus.

Lott entered Congress in 1968 as an administrative assistant to Representative William M. Colmer of Mississippi, who was also the chairman of the House Rules Committee.

Timothy Ruggles in particular was Bernard's man, and was elected chairman of the Congress.

In reaction to “ market developments ” and regulatory and judicial decisions that had “ homogenized ” commercial and investment banking, Representative Edward J. Markey ( D-MA ) had written a 1990 article arguing “ Congress must amend Glass-Steagall .” As chairman of a subcommittee of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, Markey had joined with Committee Chairman Dingell in opposing the 1988 Proxmire Financial Modernization Act.

His comments, recorded in the New York Times Magazine, were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee.

In 2003, Dick Armey became the chairman of CSE after retiring from Congress.

Being a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress since 1954, she was elected acting executive chairman of it on 30 November 1976 replacing Zhu De, who died on 6 July.

The State CMC is nominally considered the supreme military policy-making body and its chairman, elected by the National People's Congress, is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.