In October 2007, Lujan Grisham became a Democratic candidate for New Mexico's 1st congressional district, Manuel Lujan's old seat, which was being vacated by Republican Heather Wilson.

Lujan's failed 1964 bid for political office was the last electoral defeat for him ; after defeating incumbent Rep. Tom Morris in 1968, he would serve in Congress for the next two decades.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

He married his cousin Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elizabeth of Valois and had ten children:

His first wife was his second cousin Michelle of Valois, with whom he was married between 1409 and 1422.

At Saganami Island, her roommate and best friend was Michelle " Mike " Henke, paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore.

Michelle " Micki " Foster ( played by Louise Robey ) inherits the store, which she co-owns with her cousin by marriage, Ryan Dallion.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

She always let it be known that there was wine in the pot roast or that the chicken had been marinated in brandy, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Messalina was Agrippina ’ s second paternal cousin.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.

His fate was changed in 757 when Empress Kōken, his first cousin twice removed, appointed him to her crown prince instead of Prince Funado who had been appointed to this position by the will of the Emperor Shōmu.

Gerbert now became the teacher of Otto III, and Pope Gregory V ( 996 – 999 ), Otto III's cousin, appointed him Archbishop of Ravenna in 998.

His cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush.

His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, and appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, on 25 September 1655.

To help calm the situation in the west, Otto II appointed Charles, his cousin and brother of Lothar, as Duke of Lower Lorraine.

Following the advice of Fleury, Louis XV appointed his cousin, Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, to replace the late Duke of Orléans.

When his cousin became President in 1848, Napoleon was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain.

In an article in the December 2004 edition of the magazine Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record Peter de Malama wrote that his cousin, Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama, an officer in the Imperial Russian Cavalry, met Tatiana when he was wounded in 1914 and a romance later developed between Tatiana and the young man when he was appointed an equerry to the court of the Tsar at Tsarskoye Selo.

Chalabi was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister in the transitional government, and INC member Ali Allawi ( the cousin of Iyad Allawi, and incidentally nephew of Chalabi ) became Minister of Finance.

This action was also controversial, particularly since Dacko was Bokassa ’ s cousin and had appointed Bokassa as head of the military, and unrest continued in the Central African Republic, leading to Dacko being overthrown in another coup in 1981.

In 2006, a man called Xan Lyppiatt, Theo's rich and charismatic cousin, appointed himself Warden of England in the last general election.

Another was a cousin to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who was appointed as the mashgiach ruchani (" spiritual supervisor ") at the Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, but who split with Hutner on policy matters in the 1970s.

For example, the late Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah appointed his cousin, Sheikh Sheikh Saad, as heir apparent.

In 1629 the king granted Loftus the unusual favour of a general license to visit England when he pleased, leaving the great seal in the hands of the commissioners last appointed, of whom his cousin, Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, was one.

When Uthman ibn Affan, a second cousin of Muawiyah, became the third caliph, he appointed Muawiyah Governor of Syria.

It was during this period that al-Bakr was elected the Ba ' ath Party's Iraqi cell's Secretary General ( the head ), and appointed his cousin, Saddam Hussein, to be the party cell's deputy leader.

Several years later his cousin John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore was appointed Provincial Grand Master of Russia by the Grand Lodge of England.

His mother's cousin, the third Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, appointed him as his private secretary in 1804.

Randolph was appointed as the first U. S. Attorney General in September 1789, maintaining precarious neutrality in the feud between Thomas Jefferson ( of whom Randolph was a second cousin ) and Alexander Hamilton.

Waliullah references the authority that was vested in the Prophet Muhammad, then succeeded by Ali ( the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad ; husband of his daughter Fatimah Zahra ) as the first of twelve divinely appointed “ Imams ”, or male descendants of Muhammad through his daughter.

He was appointed Governor by his cousin Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.

In 1380 his father appointed him lord and regent of the island of Sicily, then known also as Trinacria, since its queen Maria of Sicily, who was Martin's cousin, was underage ( Maria's father, Frederick III the Simple, died in 1377 ).

After the death of his legitimate children James ( b. 1378 ), John ( b. 1380 ) and Margaret ( b. 1384 / 1388 ), all of whom died young, King Martin appointed his cousin James, the closest legitimate agnate of the Royal House of Aragon, as Governor-General of all the kingdoms of Aragon, a position that belonged traditionally to the heir presumptive.

Under the terms of their marriage settlement, Yaroslav ceded Ladoga to his wife, who appointed her father's cousin, the Swedish earl Ragnvald Ulfsson, to rule the town.