* Peter Verniero ( born 1959 ), former New Jersey Attorney General and New Jersey Supreme Court Justice.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

* 19 September 1990 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

* September 19 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

Proponents of republicanism in the Liberal Party include: its former leader and former leader of the Australian Republican Movement Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey and Peter Costello.

Tufts alumni in the government sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece ; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister ; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts ; Bill Richardson, Democratic Governor of New Mexico ; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United States Representative from Oregon.

2008 election results are as follows: Republican Jack Hoogendyk received 59. 08 % of Ottawa County's vote in his failed bid against US Senator Carl Levin ; Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra received 71. 7 % of the vote ; Republican David Agema received 73. 45 % in the race for the 74th district ; Republican Arlan B. Meekhof received 60. 71 % in his race for the 89th District ; Republican Joseph Haveman received 71. 92 % in his race for the 90th District ; and Holly Hughes received 61. 55 % in her failed bid against Mary Valentine for the 91st District.

* Peter Torkildsen, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party and former two-term Congressman in Massachusetts ' 6th District, from 1993 to 1997

The borough has had two notably young mayors: Democrat Peter Daley, who was 22 at his election, and Republican Casey Durdines, who was 20 at his election.

The first ever Wheelbarrow was invented by Lieutenant-Colonel ' Peter ' Miller in 1972 and used by Ammunition Technicians in the battle against Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs.

In 2003, Cato scholars Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren blasted the Republican Energy Bill as " hundreds of pages of corporate welfare, symbolic gestures, empty promises, and pork-barrel projects ".

* Peter Cook, Great Lakes Mazda, major Republican campaign donor

* Peter Moore Speer, a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

" I shall be ten times happier with my family in St. Peter than as Senator at Washington ," he declared characteristically upon learning he had lost the Republican senatorial nomination in 1865.

Cruz Bustamante, Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, Republican State Senator Tom McClintock, and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth — participated in a live television debate.

* Peter G. Torkildsen ( MPA ' 90 )-former U. S. Congressman, Massachusetts ; former chair of Massachusetts Republican Party

As historian Peter Argersinger has pointed out, the reform that conferred power on officials to regulate who may be on the ballot carried with it the danger that this power would be abused by officialdom and that legislatures controlled by established political parties ( specifically, the Republican and Democratic Parties ), would enact restrictive ballot access laws to influence election outcomes to ensure re-election of their own party's candidates.

Shortly after graduation, Bouchles married her fiancé, Republican state legislator Peter Snowe.

Grijalva has largely been supportive of the health care reform law since its passage and argued the Supreme Court should not overturn it during a segment with Republican Rep. Peter Roskam, who opposes the law, for the PBS NewsHour on March 28, 2012.

On April 18, 2005 ( his 81st birthday ), Hyde announced on his website that he would retire at the expiration of his term ( in January 2007 ) A few days earlier, it had been reported that Illinois Republicans were expecting this announcement, and it was further reported that Illinois State Senator Peter Roskam had emerged as a leading contender for the Republican Party's nominee to succeed Hyde.

The fund also made contributions to Peter Roskam, a Republican candidate for the House from Illinois's 6th district, from 2005 to 2008 and to David McSweeney, a Republican candidate for the House from Illinois's 8th district, in 2006.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

In 2001, Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE – then the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane – was controversially appointed Governor-General of Australia.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Immutab., I, iv, 33a ) reported that Peter himself appointed Ignatius to the see of Antioch.

When Peter Sutherland was appointed the Republic of Ireland's European Commissioner, Labour demanded the choice of the next Attorney General.

The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus personally appointed Peter as leader of the Church and in its dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium makes a clear distinction between apostles and bishops, presenting the latter as the successors of the former, with the pope as successor of Peter in that he is head of the bishops as Peter was head of the apostles.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo ( his appointed heir ) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown.

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

A Dutchman, Samuel Blommaert, assisted the fitting-out and appointed Peter Minuit to lead the expedition.

Appointments of former ministers of the Crown in the 1980s and 1990s were criticized by Peter H. Russell, who stated in 2009: " much of advantage of the monarchical system is lost in Canada when prime ministers recommend partisan colleagues to be appointed governor general and represent Queen.

Peter Townsend was appointed Comptroller of her mother's household.

** Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.

* 20 June 1997: Tony Blair appointed Peter Mandelson to the role of Minister for the Millennium after his announcement that the beleaguered £ 580 million dome would go ahead

* At the Portuguese Cortes, Peter, Duke of Coimbra is appointed Regent of the Kingdom.

In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company appointed McLoughlin as Chief Factor of the Columbia District ( roughly parallel to what Americans know as the Oregon Country ), with Peter Skene Ogden appointed to assist him.

In June 1975, Cutler, together with Dick Hustvedt and Peter Lippman, were appointed the technical project leaders for the software project, code-named Starlet, to develop a totally new operating system for the Star family of processors.

Sir Peter Hall was appointed artistic director ( designate ) in 1959, and formed the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) in 1961.

A visiting bishop, Peter of Altinum, was appointed by Theodoric to celebrate Easter 502 and assume the administration of the See, pending the decision of a synod to be convened following Easter.

He removed Peter Oborne as political editor, and appointed Fraser Nelson in his place to and decided not to appoint a new media columnist to succeed Stephen Glover, explaining, " I do not think The Spectator needs a media columnist.

Former Club President Peter Marsden was appointed Chairman soon after.