Prior to joining the BPP, Shakur had met several of its members on a 1970 trip to Oakland, California.

Prior to joining the Our Gang comedies, " Sonny ," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread.

Prior to joining the Pac-10, Scott was Chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association.

Prior to joining Canada in 1871, B. C.

Prior to joining Chatham, he served recently as Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Prior to joining the Suns on September 27, 1972 McCoy was the broadcaster for the Triple-A Phoenix Giants baseball club and " One of the Good Guys ," a DJ on KRUX 1360 AM.

Prior to the 1820s, Norwich was served by vessels using the River Yare, which flows through Breydon Water before joining the River Bure and then the North Sea near Great Yarmouth.

Prior to joining Maranatha, Sprouse led a secular incarnation of The Road Home which played extensively in Orange County, CA.

Prior to joining the Miles Davis band, Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1957.

Prior to joining, Casel spent four years studying performance and cultural organization in Dakar, Senegal.

Prior to this the atmosphere at the Rex had been jovial, with the UVF spectators even joining in to sing UDA songs along to the tunes of the UDA-aligned flute bands.

Prior to joining Fairchild, Dr. Thompson served as CEO of Big Bear Networks.

Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill and Can't Not tours, as well as the drummer in the progressive experimental band called Sylvia which, after changing their name to Anyone, went on to sign with Roadrunner Records.

Prior to joining the Afghan government, Jalali lived with his family in suburban Maryland.

Prior to the Bosman ruling, professional clubs in parts of Europe ( but not, for example, in Spain and France ) were able to prevent players from joining a club in another country even if their contracts had expired.

Prior to Kendrick joining the team, the Bisons were already 0-2 on the season.

Prior to joining the NFL, the Maroons played in the unofficial " Ohio League " from 1902 until 1921.

Prior to college, he graduated from Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was in the automotive industry ; most of his work experience prior to joining Sun was in automotive manufacturing.

Prior to joining Judas Priest in 1996, Owens was frontman of a heavy metal band called Brainicide.

Prior to joining George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he spent two years, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005.

Prior to joining MARTA, Dr. Scott served as GM / CEO of the Sacramento Regional Transit District.

Prior to joining the Roosevelt campaign and administration Early had served as an editor to the military paper Stars and Stripes and also as a reporter for the Associated Press.

Prior to joining Okanagan College, Lent taught at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and Notre Dame University College in Nelson, British Columbia.

Prior to joining the CIA, she worked for the Argentine Intelligence.

Prior was assigned to start the year with the Class A Tampa Yankees in Florida rather than joining the colder weather Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees in order to work on his transition to a relief pitcher.

Prior to that, she got her break starring with Richard Grieco in Fox's Booker.

" Prior to these, Bart Simpson, and other characters from Fox's The Simpsons, appeared in numerous advertisements for the product from 1990 to 2001, with the slogans " Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!

Prior to that, party bosses often used the Vice Presidential nomination as a consolation prize for the party's minority faction.

Prior to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's selection of Senator John Edwards, Vilsack was thought to be high on the list of potential running mates for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

Prior to statehood in 1907, the office was preceded by a Presidential appointed Governor of Oklahoma Territory with similar powers.

Prior to statehood in 1861, the office was preceded by a Presidential appointed Governor of Kansas Territory with similar powers.

Prior to 2004, the Presidential Museum was a distinct entity from the Malacañang Library.

Prior to Katrina, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library maintained a collection of 12, 000 books on United States history, southern history, and history of the American Civil War.

Prior to being elected as the President, then-candidate Ronald Reagan foreshadowed the strategy during the 1980 US Presidential debates, saying " John Anderson tells us that first we've got to reduce spending before we can reduce taxes.

Prior to joining the Clinton Administration she worked in Clinton's campaign as a member of the search committee for the Vice Presidential nominee and on the transition team.

Gardner referred to himself as " Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain ", and " Presidential Attache to the self-styled European Council of Princes " also " Prior of the self-styled Celtic Churches Sacred Kindred of Saint Columbia ".< ref >

Prior to this, the League of Women Voters moderated the 1976, 1980, 1984 debates before it withdrew from the position as debate moderator with this statement after the 1988 Presidential debates: " the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter.

Prior to the 2008 United States Presidential Election, on September 16, 2008, Obama legal counsel announced that they would be seeking an injunction to stop an alleged caging scheme in Michigan wherein the state Republican party would use home foreclosure lists to challenge voters still using their foreclosed home as a primary address at the polls.

Prior to Roosevelt's Presidency, the final disposition of Presidential papers was left to chance.

Prior to the 2000 Presidential Election, Newman was cast as the voice of Garry Trudeau's comic strip character Uncle Duke.

Prior to becoming OMB Deputy Director, he was the Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel.

Prior to the 2008 Republican National Convention, Senator John McCain ( the Republican Presidential nominee to-be ) asked Scully to write the acceptance speech for his Vice Presidential nominee, whom McCain had not yet chosen.