Prior to establishing the nation's capital in Washington, D. C., the United States Congress and its predecessors had met in Philadelphia, New York City, and a number of other locations.

Prior to his election to the Governor's office, Hoeven served as the President of the nation's only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, from 1993 to 2000.

Prior to becoming the tenth province of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland ( then a separate British Dominion ) used the Forget-me-not as a symbol of remembrance of that nation's war dead.

Prior to his coaching stint at Maryland, Wade coached at Baltimore's Dunbar High School for ten years, where he compiled a 341-25 record and was often ranked in the nation's top 10.

Prior to Red Hat, Young built a couple of computer rental and leasing businesses, including founding Vernon Computer Rentals in 1984.

Prior to the founding of Libre, they had played in one of Palmieri's most experimental salsa bands.

Prior to founding the Bujinkan organization and teaching the nine Ryū collectively ( with particular yearly focus ), Hatsumi awarded his students rank certificates in individual Ryū.

Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams ' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780 ; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781 ; and Bush River, May 1781.

Prior to founding Mount Holyoke, Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary.

Prior to Scottsboro's founding, the area surrounding the present-day city was inhabited by the Cherokee Indians.

Prior to 1845 and the founding of the Natchez Institute, the city's elite were the few who could pay for formal education.

Prior to the creation of the Gordon Heights Fire Department ( GHFD ) in 1947, there had been no fire services in the community, dating back to its founding in 1927.

Prior to the district's founding, the town had a series of public schools.

Prior to Clover's founding, Bethany and Bethel, communities located a few miles west and east, respectively, were primary population centers in northern York District, with well-established Presbyterian churches, post offices and stores.

Prior to the founding of Waco in 1849, a Wichita Native American group known as the " Waco " ( Spanish: Hueco or Huaco ) lived on the land of present-day downtown Waco.

Prior to the founding of the Musar movement, musar was a practice of the solitary seeker ; thanks to Salanter, it became the basis for a popular social / spiritual movement.

A by-product of this gig was founding vocalist Gay Woods rejoining the band fulltime, partly because Prior was experiencing vocal problems, and for a while Steeleye toured with two female singers, and released the album Time 1996, their first new studio album in seven years.

Prior to founding Zerofootprint, Dembo was the Founder, CEO, and President of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it from a start-up to the largest enterprise risk-management software company in the world, with offices in fifteen countries and over 70 % of the world ’ s top 100 banks as clients.

Prior to this, then-Governor Rodman McCamley Price had actively promoted the notion of founding a training institute for New Jersey's teachers, and helped to mobilize support among influential state leaders:

Prior to the founding of the dynasty, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ), held the title of Chao Pharaya Chakri for over ten years.

Prior to National Reviews founding in 1955, some conservatives believed that the American right was a largely unorganized collection of individuals who shared intertwining philosophies but had little opportunity for a united public voice.

Prior to founding Blum Capital, Blum was with Sutro & Co. for seventeen years, holding various positions including director, major stockholder and member of the executive committee.

Prior to that date, most celebrations of New Zealand's founding as a colony were marked on 29 January, the date on which William Hobson arrived in the Bay of Islands.

Prior to the founding of the town the area was covered by temperate coniferous forests ( mostly pine and fir ) with an admixture of broad-leaved trees and fens.

Prior to founding IAND, Dick Rutkowski worked for Dr Wells and was director of the diver training at NOAA.

Prior to its founding, access to Usenet and E-mail exchange from non-ARPANET sites was accomplished using a cooperative network of systems running the UUCP protocol over POTS lines.

Prior founding the Western Design Center in 1978, Bill Mensch held design engineering and management positions at Philco-Ford, Motorola, MOS Technology and Integrated Circuit Engineering. Bill Mensch, creator of the 65C02 and 65C816 microprocessors, and co-inventor of the Motorola 6800 | MC6800 and MOS Technology 6502 | MOS6502 microprocessors.

Prior to the founding of Spümcø, two animators, John Kricfalusi and Lynne Naylor, would spend their time attempting to sell original cartoon ideas throughout the 1980s, while working for various animation studios like Filmation.

Prior to then, from its founding in 1883, the university was based in the Old Infirmary on Newport Road, Cardiff which is now part of the university ’ s Queen ’ s Buildings.

Prior to June 1776, the New Jersey delegation in the First Continental Congress was opposed to independence.

Prior to the Battle of Monmouth, Hart invited Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army

Prior to Kaoma's 1989 cover of the Los Kjarkas song " Llorando se fue ", dozens of groups and several singers had already covered the song using a dance rhythm, such as in 1984 with success from Peruvian groups Armonía 10, Cuarteto Continental, Sexteto Internacional, and Puerto Rican singer Wilkins.

Prior to Yorktown, the corps was responsible for digging the entrenchments for the Continental Army.

Prior to his service in the Continental Congress, Henry was a gunsmith and provided rifles to the British during the French and Indian War and later the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Prior to his role at Burger King, Mr. Brenneman was President and COO of Continental Airlines under Gordon Bethune.

Prior to its existence ( or that of the Continental Navy, he commanded the sloop Unity when she captured HMS Margaretta in the Battle of Machias, the first naval battle of the American Revolutionary War.

Prior to roughly 1 / 3 of New York City's population fleeing the expected combat, the Continental soldiers came upon a grand city of wealth, a bustling center of commerce, shipbuilding and maritime trade.

Prior to Plato's Retreat, the building housed the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse where Bette Midler provided musical entertainment early in her career.

Prior to Formula Atlantic, professional Formula B races were held in the United States from 1965 to 1972, firstly with the SCCA's poorly-supported Formula A, then as part of the SCCA Formula Continental Championship in 1968 ( when they were largely overshadowed by the V8-powered Formula 5000 cars ) and then as an independent series from 1969 to 1972.

Prior to the purchase, Tate & Lyle announced that it planned to sell CFS Continental to SYSCO, another wholesale grocer, for $ 700 million to help fund the acquisition.

Prior to his NBA career, he spent three seasons ( 1985 – 88 ) in the Continental Basketball Association, playing for the Wisconsin Flyers and Rapid City Thrillers, and in the French Ligue Nationale de Basketball team of Montpellier ( coached by Pierre Galle ) for the end of the 1987 – 88 and the whole 1988 – 89 season.