A former savings bank named for him was merged in the 1990s with Industrial Bank of Washington, D. C. A namesake, John Hanson Briscoe, was a circuit judge and Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Then in 1952 the Barbados Advocate newspaper polled several prominent Barbadian politicians, lawyers, businessmen, the Speaker of the Barbados House of Assembly and later as first President of the Senate, Sir Theodore Branker, Q. C.

The Speaker may also designate a Speaker pro tempore for special purposes ; for example, during long recesses, a Representative whose district is near Washington, D. C. may be designated as Speaker pro tempore to sign enrolled bills.

* C. C. Aycock, the only three-term Lieutenant governor in modern Louisiana history ; former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Others who have chaired GOPAC include former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, former Georgia Representative and Secretary of the Army Bo Callaway, California Representative David Dreier, Arizona Representative John Shadegg, former Oklahoma Representative J. C. Watts, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia.

He was the Speaker of the House in the Second Congress, both preceded and succeeded by Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg.

* Washington, D. C. ( with President Ronald Reagan at the White House and Speaker of the House Tip O ' Neill at the United States Capitol )

In 1932, he lost to state House Speaker John B. Fournet of Jennings in Jefferson Davis Parish ; in 1944, he was defeated in a runoff by J. Emile Verret of Iberia Parish, and in 1959, the position went to the conservative Clarence C. " Taddy " Aycock of Franklin in St. Mary Parish.

In fact, in the early 1950s, Tunku Abdul Rahman's presidency had also been challenged by C. M. Yusof, who later became the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, but Tunku was not properly considered an incumbent then, being only a care-taker president.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly ( Westchester Co., 3rd D .) in 1862 and 1863, and during the latter year acted at times as Speaker pro tempore while Speaker Theophilus C. Callicot was under investigation.

Speaker of the House Michael C. Kerr wrote to the Senate that Belknap resigned " with intent to evade the proceedings of impeachment against him.

Since 1999 he is also the First Speaker of the " Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B. C.

Ferrer also defeated Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.

Byrns was Speaker when he died in Washington, D. C., and had been planning to run for reelection.

In the primary runoff, Morrison's lieutenant governor choice, then Alexandria Mayor W. George Bowdon, Jr., lost his race to Clarence C. " Taddy " Aycock of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, a former Speaker of the Louisiana House.

McVay was elected Speaker of the Senate in 1836, and became Acting Governor of Alabama in 1837 when Governor Clement C. Clay was appointed to the United States Senate.

C. P. Singh is the Speaker of Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha from BJP Party.

I am convinced, Mr. Speaker, that there are well over 2, 000 township trustees in my congressional district who with one arm tied behind their backs, could blindfolded do a better job of directing this city than the city council of D. C.

In Washington, D. C., he made a name for himself by challenging and defeating another young southern congressional staffer and future president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, for Speaker of the Little Congress, a body that Johnson had dominated before Coleman's challenge.

Dr. Mark Dever, Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington D. C ; Author / Speaker, 9 Marks Ministries.

: Speaker B Tewa: Wédít ’ ókánk ’ egena ’ adi imbí akhonidi.

In their two-hour conversation, the three men primarily spoke Tewa ; however, when Speaker A addresses the Hopi Reservation as a whole, he code-switches to Hopi.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

:( 1 ) Speaker X: " We should leave for the show or else we ’ ll be late.

In July 2009, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Colorado Congressman Jared Polis to the BOV, the first openly gay person to serve on a service academy ’ s advisory board.

John R. Lynch, Mississippi ’ s first black U. S. Representative and Speaker of the state House, was born a slave on Tacony Plantation in 1847.

In the Red Sox signed Duffy Lewis, who became the left fielder, and, with Speaker and Harry Hooper would form Boston ’ s “ Million-Dollar Outfield ”, one of the finest outfield trios in baseball history, playing together until Speaker was traded to the Cleveland Indians in 1916.

Speaker ’ s best season came in 1912, as he played every game, leading the American League in doubles with 53, and home runs with ten.

Speaker ’ s contract with Cleveland for $ 40, 000 was the highest in baseball at the time.

Speaker hit over. 350 in ten of his eleven years with Cleveland, in ending Ty Cobb's run of nine consecutive AL batting titles by batting. 386 to Cobb ’ s. 371.

The announcement of Speaker ’ s election to the Baseball Hall of Fame was made in January.

* IMDB Tris Speaker ’ s IMDB page

* The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Tris Speaker ’ s page

Consultant, Steve Jaffe, “ I love Dick Gregory ; he is one of the funniest people on the planet .” They spoke of how Gregory had made a comment on Dr. King ’ s birthday that broke everyone into laughter, when he noted that the President made Speaker Newt Gingrich ride “ in the back of the plane ,” on an Air Force One trip overseas.

" In criticizing Newt Gingrich for secretly having an affair with a staffer while Gingrich, as House Speaker, was simultaneously impeaching President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, DeLay said, " I don ’ t think that Newt could set a high moral standard, a high moral tone, during that moment .... You can ’ t do that if you ’ re keeping secrets about your own adulterous affairs.

2004, October 25 – Banner of Peace from the board of cosmic station “ Mir ” was presented to Speaker of Indian Parliament Sri Somnath Chatterji on the occasion of 100th Sviatoslav Roerich ’ s Anniversary.

After that he was appointed Minister of Communications and Public Works and acting Minister of Finance in Nuri Al-Saeed ’ s eleventh cabinet ( 16 September 1950 ); then Minister of Finance ( 25 December 1950 ) and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies for the third time ( first of December 1951 ), remaining in this office until the Chamber was dissolved on 27 October 1952.

He participated in Nuri Al-Saeed ’ s twelfth cabinet as Minister of Agriculture ( 3 August 1954 ), then was elected another time to the Speakership of the Chamber of Deputies on 16 September 1954 ; was re-elected as Speaker on first of December 1954 ; again on first of December 1955 and on first of December 1956.

He became Minister of Communications and Public Works in Al-Ayoubi ’ s third cabinet ( 20 June 1957 ); then Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies ( first of December 1957 ).

Perceval ’ s body was laid on a sofa in the Speaker ’ s drawing room and removed to Number 10 in the early hours of 12 May.

:: If, at the time when under subsection ( a ) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.