The city was originally known as Minner in honor of one of the original residing landowners.

Kaufman, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by Joe Biden ( who resigned to become Vice President of the United States ), was not a candidate in the special election.

In 1982 Minner was elected to the Delaware Senate and served there from the 1983 / 1984 session through the 1991 / 1992 session.

While in the State Senate Minner was noted for her sponsorship of the Delaware Land and Water Conservation Act, a key piece of legislation that protected 30, 000 acres ( 120 km² ) of land and created the Delaware Open Space Council.

Minner was elected Governor of Delaware in 2000.

Minner was Delaware ’ s fourth consecutive two term governor and largely continued the business oriented policies and bipartisan, consensus style begun by her Republican predecessor, Pierre S. du Pont, IV.

Carney sought the Democratic nomination for the office of Governor in 2008, as incumbent Governor Ruth Ann Minner was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.

Ruth Ann Minner ( born January 17, 1935 ) is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware.

* 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware

* January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

Ruth Ann Minner began her political career as a clerk in the Delaware House of Representatives and as a receptionist in the office of Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt.

In her second inaugural address in January 2005, Minner concluded with this description of her philosophy: " for Ruth Ann Minner, farmer, gardener and daughter of a sharecropper, it is simply this: Work hard.

Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware

In 2001, Governor Ruth Ann Minner chose Markell to chair the Information Services Task Force, which developed and implemented recommendations to modify the state's management of information technology.

Spence endorsed Burris, the eventual Republican nominee, who went on to lose the general election to then Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner.

AK1200 is the stage name of Florida-based musician Dave Minner working in the jungle and drum and bass genres.

In 2009, Minner launched a new drum & bass label, Big Riddim.

The television commercial featured Kathryn Minner, the original Little Old Lady from Pasadena.

In 1969 she married Roger Minner and together they operated a family towing business, the Roger Minner Wrecker Service.

Roger Minner died of cancer in 1991.

Minner rose to become Delaware's most powerful female politician, but she did it in a very conventional way, representing a rural, small town constituency, and building relationships and expertise by working in the legislative process over many years.

While in that position she chaired the Minner Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness.

Minner won easily.

As the incumbent Lieutenant Governor Minner took office upon the resignation of Governor Thomas R. Carper on January 3, 2001.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.