* 1876 The Texas legislature forms Kent County from Young and Bexar districts.

McKeough won a seat in the Ontario legislature representing Chatham — Kent in 1963.

On January 16, 1836, the Illinois legislature formed a new county, Kane, in honor of Elias Kent Kane.

White's father, Judge Thomas White, was a member of the colonial Maryland legislature, the Delaware House of Assembly, the Chief Justice of the Kent County Court of Common Pleas, and delegate to the Delaware Constitutional Conventions of 1776 and 1792.

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative Don Luckham by 641 votes in the southwestern Ontario riding of Kent — Elgin.

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He accused the state legislature of the same, but held no investigation.

Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie King after the strike, and harshly criticized King's war effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II introducing a resolution into the Ontario legislature which was passed 44 to 10, that accused the federal government of mishandling the war effort.

Some media outlets, such as the conservative Toronto Sun, compared the matter to the King-Byng Affair and accused Aird of partisanship for asking Peterson to form a government rather than dissolving the legislature and calling a new election.

He was accused of accepting inappropriate luxury trips in 1999, but was defended in the legislature and was soon after reappointed to a fourth term as chair and CEO.

Despite the compromise, his opponents accused him of purposely delaying progress on the Wabash and Erie by delaying reports, his slow progress in surveying, and slow page in other areas, further kindling distrust from the legislature.

" The paper's editor accused Johnson of ignoring the concerns of his constituents and spending more time on golf courses than in the legislature, adding that it was " galling " to learn he would collect $ 39, 000 in severance pay.

In the Thai political crisis of the 2000s, he was accused by deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters of being a mastermind of the 2006 coup as well as in the appointment of the post-coup legislature and Interim Government of Surayud Chulanont.

DeLay has since been accused of wrongdoing for using the Federal Aviation Administration to force the Democrats back into session in Texas to vote on the redistricting, as well as for helping fund several Republican candidates for the state legislature in 2002.

However, the state legislature, in 1865, passed " Black Codes ", angering Northerners, who accused the state of imposing semi-slavery on the Freedmen.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

Subsequently, the Jamaican governor ratified a legislature consisting of eight magistrates appointed by the Governor of Jamaica and 10 ( later increased to 27 ) elected representatives.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

The executive power is exercised by the executive branch, which is headed by the Governor, advised by a cabinet of secretaries that are independent of the legislature.

In that first year, after a bill to create the holiday failed in the Arizona state legislature, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt had issued an executive order creating the holiday.

In 1779, at the age of thirty-six, Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia by the two houses of the legislature.

If the State Legislature was not in session, its Governor could appoint a temporary replacement to serve until the legislature could elect a permanent replacement.

The current system, under the Seventeenth Amendment, allows Governors to appoint a replacement only if their state legislature has previously decided to allow the Governor to do so ; otherwise, the seat must remain vacant until the special election is held to fill the seat, as in the case of a vacancy in the House.

The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

Per the Constitution Act, 1982, any constitutional amendment that affects the Crown, including the Office of the Governor General, requires the unanimous consent of each provincial legislature as well as the federal parliament.

* 1984 – The New York State legislature creates the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation ( RIOC ), with a nine-person board of directors appointed by the Governor, two suggested by the Mayor of New York City, and three of whom are residents of the island.

He managed to hold on to power with the aid of opposition parties, and consulted the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, proposing to pass legislation to extend the term of the lower house of the state legislature by a year.

Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists, from which the term gerrymander is derived.

In 1776 Henry was elected by the new state legislature as the first post-colonial Governor of Virginia, for a one-year term.

Hawaii joined on May 1, when the legislature overrode a veto from Governor Linda Lingle.

Big Bend National Park was established as a state park in 1933 by the state legislature, and expanded the same year by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson.

In the 1920s, Indiana had the strongest Ku Klux Klan organization in the country under Grand Dragons D. C. Stephenson and Walter F. Bossert, with control over the state legislature and an ally in Governor Ed Jackson.

It was the first Indiana county formed by the Indiana territorial legislature and not the Governor.

In the state legislature Shandon is located in the 15th Senate District, and represented by Republican Abel Maldonado until he resigned when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Lieutenant Governor, and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakeslee.

Carlinville is named for Thomas Carlin, once Governor of Illinois, who as a member of the state legislature was instrumental in creating Macoupin County.

Meanwhile, Governor Jindal and the legislature, in a bid to save the jobs at stake, moved to subsidize with $ 50 million from the state's megafund the incoming owner of the poultry plant, Foster Farms of California.

In that year, a special session of the legislature met in Columbia, inaugurating Governor Walter Leake, and selecting LeFleur's Bluff ( now Jackson ) as the permanent capital.

There were no enabling laws in Ohio at that time, so legislation was drafted and subsequently passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor James Cox.

Barbara Roberts, who served in the state legislature and as Oregon Secretary of State before election as Governor of Oregon grew up in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School.

During the first provincial general election that October, McCreight won a seat for Victoria City in the legislature, and Sir Joseph Trutch, the Lieutenant Governor, chose him to be British Columbia ’ s first premier.

In 1917, Rowell, a supporter of conscription during World War I left the Ontario legislature and broke with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party of Canada to join the national Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and was appointed to Borden's government as President of the Privy Council of Canada in October 1917 and was also made vice-chairman of the government's War Committee giving him primary responsibility for organizing the war effort and enforcing conscription.

Though Blair was a supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald's federal Liberal-Conservatives, he joined the parliamentary opposition in the legislature and, in 1879, became leader of the opposition to the Conservative government of Premier John James Fraser.

Welensky stood for the federal legislature in 1953 for the United Federal Party ( UFP ), created by himself and Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Sir Godfrey Huggins.

He resigned from the Saskatchewan legislature shortly after his re-election in the 1917 election in order to accept an appointment to the Canadian Senate by Sir Robert Borden.

Sir James Henry Craig, Governor-General of Lower Canada at the time, tried to protect Hart, but the legislature dismissed him in both 1808 and 1809.

The governing Conservative Party won its third consecutive term in government with over half of the popular vote and all but four of the 42 seats in the legislature, effectively a rout for the popular incumbent Premier, Sir Richard McBride.

As an extremely active member of the Natal legislature and a passionate proponent of responsible government, Ridley became the main opponent of the political reforms introduced by Sir Garnet Woleseley to downgrade the Natal legislature in order to pave the way for the implementation of Lord Carnarvon ’ s plan for a confederation of the South African states.

In the legislature he was sometimes opposed, and at other times assisted, by Mr ( afterwards Sir John ) John O ’ Shanassy, who was the leader of the popular party, and between them they managed to pass a number of statutes which added greatly to the prosperity of the colony.