John McMeens a native of South Carolina was one of the first to return to the area.

McMeens also represented the area in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1814 to 1818.

Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

Eventually, he rose to the position of Minister of Crime.

He rose to the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town in 1962.

A few years after his birth, his maternal uncle Theophilus rose to the powerful position of Patriarch of Alexandria.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

He also involved himself in preparations for the impending war, joining the Air Raid Precautions ( ARP ) as a warden, where he soon rose to a position of local seniority, with his own house being assigned as the ARP post.

During this period, Athens and Sparta rose to a position of political eminence in Greece, and their rivalry in the aftermath of the Persian wars brought Greece into renewed internal conflict.

Iori served with distinction in putting down the rebellion and gradually rose to the rank of karō — a position equal to a minister.

It has been verified by now that in the current position of the city rose a terramare.

Ninety percent of his record sales were from black people, and his " Smokey, Part 2 " ( 1959 ) rose to the # 1 position on black music charts.

Sometimes a slave married into the household of his master and rose to a position of trust ; there is an instance of a slave taking charge of a chiefdom during the minority of the heir.

In 1976, Saddam rose to the position of general in the Iraqi armed forces, and rapidly became the strongman of the government.

Upon its release, it immediately rose to the # 1 position on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the second Wheel of Time book to reach the # 1 position on that list.

After his release he became the commander of the second Palmach battalion and rose to the position of Chief Operations Officer of the Palmach in October 1947.

He rose in power to a position of “ de facto ” regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms.

He rose to the position of regimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of Zachary Taylor, although he personally did not participate in combat.

Justin soon joined the army and, because of his ability, rose through the ranks to become a general under the Emperor Anastasius I ; by the time of Anastasius ' death in 518, he held the influential position of comes excubitorum, commander of the palace guard.

In 1954, he became a full member of the Politburo and eventually rose to occupy the second-highest position in the party hierarchy.

Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend ( Walpole's brother-in-law ) and James Stanhope.

An ambitious redistributive programme was carried out, with the Swedish welfare state significantly expanded from a position already one of the most far-reaching in the world during his time in office, while tax rates rose from being fairly low even by European standards to the highest levels in the Western world.

He rose no further ; others were repeatedly promoted over him to the head position of Kapellmeister.

He was taken on as a teaboy, promoted to clapperboy, and soon rose to the position of third assistant director.

When Richard rose to suppress the rebellion, Stanley and his brother William were at the King's side and were richly rewarded from the forfeited estates of the rebels and Stanley was appointed to Buckingham ’ s position as Lord High Constable of England.

After Ho Chi Minh rose to power during the August Revolution in 1945, Pham Van Dong was appointed minister of finance of the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ), a position he occupied till 1954.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

The Borgia family originally came from the Kingdom of Valencia, and rose to prominence during the mid-15th century ; Cesare's great-uncle Alonso Borgia ( 1378 – 1458 ), bishop of Valencia, was elected Pope Callixtus III in 1455.

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

One such family, the Flavians, or gens Flavia, rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

This policy undermined senatorial power, as more reliable equestrian commanders rose to prominence.

Other niche programs such as The Lawrence Welk Show ( which targeted older audiences ) and Soul Train ( a black-oriented program ) also rose to prominence in syndication during the era.

The Vijayanagara Empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts by the southern powers to ward off Islamic invasions by the end of the 13th century.

He rose to prominence through his service in the First World War, receiving numerous honours and decorations, and continued his military career through various British campaigns across Europe and Asia.

" One such man, a warrior called Dingiswayo ( the Troubled One ) of the Mtetwa rose to prominence.

In the late 1940s, they quickly rose to national prominence, first with their popular nightclub act, next as stars of their own radio program.

He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France, when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Nehru quickly rose to prominence under the mentorship of Gandhi.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Notably, the Phalange, a Maronite militia, rose to prominence around this time, led by members of the Gemayel family.

After the Khitans left Mongolia the Shiwei Mongols rose to prominence, when from the 1130s there were reciprocally hostile relations between the successive khans of the Khamag Mongol confederation ( Khaidu, Khabul Khan and Ambaghai Khan ) and the emperors of the Jin dynasty.

While the republican government had been restored, Munich subsequently became a hotbed of extremist politics, among which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism rose to prominence.

The rich musical possibilities in the poetry of the late 16th and early 17th centuries provided an attractive basis for the madrigal, which quickly rose to prominence as the pre-eminent musical form in Italian musical culture, as discussed by Tim Carter:

The family rose to prominence in the late 1st century CE.

She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate ( 1969 – 1989 ).

Reconstructionism rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

The New Left in Japan began simultaneously with the British and American movements and rose to prominence in the country by occupying college campuses for several years in the 1960s.

In the first decades of the 19th century, three Oromo monarchies, Enarya, Goma and Guma, rose to prominence.

However, the rise of grasses in the Miocene ( about 20 Mya ) saw a major change: the even-toed ungulates with their more complex stomachs were better able to adapt to a coarse, low-nutrition diet, and soon rose to prominence.

After lumber baron William B. Cox purchased the team in 1943, the Phillies began a rapid rise to prominence in the National League, as the team rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in five years.

Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.