Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player in the NBA, playing point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns.

Prior to the United States formally entering the war, the U. S. Army leased land near Albuquerque, New Mexico airport known as Oxnard Field, to service transient Army and U. S. Navy aircraft.

Prior to entering monastichood, she was a medical student and researcher.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

Prior to entering politics, Pryor worked as a private practice attorney.

Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador Battle worked in Uganda for 10 years, as well as in Pakistan and Libya.

Prior to entering politics in 1980, Chiarelli was a lawyer and businessman in the Ottawa area.

Prior to entering the tournament all teams other than the host nations ( which qualify automatically ) compete in a qualifying process.

Prior to entering the NBA, he played college basketball at the University of Miami.

Prior to entering the gubernatorial race, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

Prior to entering the pageants, she worked as a weathergirl.

Prior to entering Parliament, Smith worked for Northumberland County Council, managed an Advice Centre in Dundee and was Constituency Assistant to North East Fife MP, Sir Menzies Campbell.

Prior to the introduction of the IBM PC there was no unique accepted standard for entering, displaying, printing, or storing the £ sign in the UK computer industry.

Prior to entering broadcasting, he was associate editor of America, a weekly opinion journal published by American Jesuits.

Prior to entering Parliament she was educational adviser to Arsenal Football Club from 1985 to 1989.

Prior to entering politics, Perez worked as a community activist.

Prior to entering politics, Bélanger held various positions in the public and private sectors.

Prior to December 31, 2001, the polluted water was being deposited directly into Howe Sound by means of Jane Creek and Britannia Creek and as much as 450 kilograms of copper was entering Howe Sound daily.

Prior to entering politics, Fentie was involved in a variety of economic activities in and around Watson Lake.

Prior to entering politics Watson worked in the trade union movement, for the Workers ' Educational Association, the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs ( ASTMS ) and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union ( MSF ).

Prior to entering politics, he was a human resource manager with the Scottish Office.

Prior to entering the Australian Parliament, Abbott studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at Sydney University and for a Master of Arts as a Rhodes Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford University.

Prior to his election to the Senate, Garn served on the Salt Lake City commission for four years and was elected as the mayor in 1971, entering office in 1972.

Prior to entering a feedlot, cattle spend most of their life grazing on rangeland or on immature fields of grain such as green wheat pasture.

Their politics may be different but such people share the morality of Laval and Pétain ... they are willing not only to tolerate evil, but to excuse it ... Both Jim Prior and Keith Joseph know that George Ward and Grunwick are not perfect, nor was Czechoslovakia perfect in 1938.

Prior to attending university, he began a career in politics.

Prior to the inauguration of the 2008 season, Henry Neumann resigned as president and entered politics.

Prior to his election as President, Köhler had a distinguished career in politics and the civil service and as a banking executive.

Prior to being involved in federal politics, he spent ten years in provincial politics.

Prior to his career in state and national politics, Frazier was a farmer and school teacher.

Prior to politics, Pettigrew was Vice-President of Samson Bélair / Deloitte & Touche in Montreal from 1985 to 1995, where he acted as a business consultant to companies with dealings in international markets.

Prior to dedicating his professional life to politics, Hagen was CEO at Tate & Lyle Norway from 1970 to 1974, Consultant of Finansanalyse from 1977 to 1979, and economic policy consultant in the oil industry from 1979 to 1981.

Prior to his entry into politics, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister.

Prior to his election, he received an endorsement from Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight, a powerful nod in North Carolina politics.

Prior to politics, Imee was producer for eleven years ( 1975 – 1986 ) of two famous Filipino children shows namely: Kulit Bulilit and Kaluskos Musmos-where Batibot originated.

Prior to entering politics, Kerr acted as Crown Counsel in the Tasmanian Solicitor-General's Department, as lecturer in constitutional law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Papua New Guinea, and as Principal Solicitor for the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service.

Prior to entering provincial politics, he had been a card-carrying supporter of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Prior to entering politics, Mitchell was a schoolteacher and a prominent lawyer in St. Stephen, New Brunswick.

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Prior to the 1974 – 75 season, Scallen and his ownership group from Minnesota sold the team to local media mogul Frank Griffiths for $ 9 million.

Prior to the bridge's opening in 1974, U. S. Rt.

( Prior to 1974, the governor and lieutenant governor were elected separately.

Prior to 1974, it was a village in the Derwent Rural District, which was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Prior to 1 April 1974, Birkenhead and the rest of the Wirral Peninsula, was part of the county of Cheshire.

Prior to the reform of local government in 1974, brought about by the Local Government Act 1972, Goole was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Prior to 1974 the goal posts in the NFL were on the goal lines instead of the end lines.

Prior to 1974, it was under the jurisdiction of Teesside Constabulary.

Prior to 1974, Quebec had no official language and was subject only to the requirements on the use of English and French contained in Article 133 of the British North America Act, 1867.

Map of County Boroughs Prior to Abolition in 1974

Prior to 1974 it was administered by Frome Urban District.

The reigning monarch of each of the Commonwealth realms is at the apex of the Order of St. John as its Sovereign Head, followed by the Grand Prior, since 1974 the Duke of Gloucester.

Prior to 1974, Congress had no formal process for establishing a coherent budget.

Prior to her political career, she was a computer programmer and systems analyst from 1962 to 1974, and a director of the Save the Children Foundation from 1974 to 1985.

Prior to his election to the House of Commons, he served for twenty years in the British Army leaving in 1974 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.

Prior to the Local Government Act taking effect in 1974, Devizes was a municipal borough.

Prior to the 1974 – 1975 series, the first generation of Captain Pugwash episodes were filmed in black and white and were first shown on British TV, between 1957 – 1966.

Prior to local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 Colwyn Bay was a municipal borough with a population of c. 25, 000, but in 1974 this designation disappeared leaving five separate parishes, known as communities in Wales, of which the one bearing the name Colwyn Bay encompassed just the central part of the overall town and in the 2001 Census contained just 9, 742 people, with the others as follows: Mochdre ( 1, 862 ), Rhos-on-Sea ( 7, 110 ), Glan Conwy ( 2, 290 ), Old Colwyn ( 7, 626 ) and Llysfaen ( 2, 652 ).

Prior to local government reorganisation in 1974, Pontardawe and district was served by Pontardawe Rural District Council, but this merged in 1974 to become part of Lliw Valley DC ; which was subsequently reorganised again when the Pontardawe area became a part of the present Neath Port Talbot county borough.