Representative football was kept alive longer than the national club competition with the introduction of State of origin rules in 1977.

The Queen of New Zealand, represented in the Cook Islands by the Queen's Representative, is the Head of State ; the Chief Minister is the head of government and of a multi-party system.

* Georgia State Representative David Casas discussing HB 1133 and HB 325, scholarship tax credits YouTube video

Connick is the first cousin of Jefferson Parish District Attorney, Paul Connick, and State Representative, Patrick Connick, of Harvey, also of Jefferson Parish.

He was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives as a State Representative in 1970 at the age of 22.

* Michigan State House of Representatives, State Representative District 64: Earl Poleski ( R )

* Michigan State House of Representatives, State Representative District 65: Mike Shirkey ( R )

The center is named for longtime Upper Peninsula State Representative Dominic J. Jacobetti.

States are currently required to use a single-member district scheme, whereby the State is divided into as many election districts for Representatives in the House of Representatives as the size of its representation in that body ( that is to say, Representatives cannot be elected at-large from the whole State unless the State has only one Representative in the House, nor can districts elect more than 1 Representative ).

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

* Reginald Meeks, Kentucky State Representative

* September 14 – Jacques Dupre, Louisiana State Representative, State Senator, and Governor ( b. 1773 )

By 1792, a party division had emerged between Federalists led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who desired a stronger federal government with a leading role in the economy, and the Democratic-Republicans led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Representative James Madison of Virginia, who favored states ' rights and opposed Hamilton's economic program.

Like most of the Southern members of Congress, neither Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson nor Representative James Madison had any particular interest in two of Hamilton's tripartite recommendations: the establishing of an official government Mint, and the chartering of the Bank of the United States.

The county was organized January 2, 1822 and named in honor of U. S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.

* Hubert C. Skinner & Amos Eno, United States Cancellations, 1845-1869: Unusual and Representative Markings ( American Philatelic Society, State College, PA 1980 ).

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of Monday, November 13, 1961, as the State Ballet of Rhode Island Week, requesting all Rhode Islanders to give special attention to this unusual event which should contribute to the cultural life of the State.

now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Thursday, November 23rd, 1961, as Thanksgiving Day,

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

It was undisclosed at the time that New York State Governor John A.

Widdecombe joined John Major's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1990.

* John Ehrman, The Navy in the War of William III: Its State and Direction ( Cambridge, 1953 ).

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Columbus is host to the oldest theater in the State of Indiana, the Crump Theatre, which was built in 1889 by John Crump.

Victorian house in AlamedaDue to its proximity to the Bay, wind surfers and kite surfers can often be seen at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.

* Whitney, Robert W., State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920 – 1940, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Image: Camp David 4 p37126-25a-515h. jpg | George W. Bush meets with his advisors at Camp David on January 17, 2004, while preparing for his State of the Union address.

* Sommer, Barbara W. "' We Had This Opportunity ': African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota " in The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History, Annette Atkins and Deborah L. Millers, eds.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, observers expected him to avoid any changes to DADT, since his nominee for Secretary of State Colin Powell had participated in its creation.

Coach H. W. " Bill " Hargiss ' " Presbies " are said to have featured the play in a 17 – 0 victory over Washburn University and in a 107 – 0 destruction of Pittsburg State University.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

On October 11, 1955, Muller & Bahadur ( Pennsylvania State University ) observed individual tungsten ( W ) atoms on the surface of a sharply pointed W tip by cooling it to 78 K and employing helium as the imaging gas.

* 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes " regimes that sponsor terror " as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

* 1830 – Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, and politician, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State ( d. 1915 )

Benjamin moved again, to Secretary of State ; George W. Randolph of Virginia had been made the Secretary of War.

In 1974, Ashcroft was narrowly defeated for election to that post by Jackson County County Executive George W. Lehr, who argued that Ashcroft, who is not an accountant, was not qualified to be the State Auditor.

In 1888, when the University was still Kansas State Agricultural College, H. W.

In 1972 the State of Italy purchased a large collection of Niccolò Paganini manuscripts from the W. Heyer Library of Cologne.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

Indeed, sentiments of Manifest Destiny were abuzz in this time: in 1867, year of Confederation, US Secretary of State W. H.

President George W. Bush delivering the 2007 State of the Union Address, with Vice President of the United States | Vice President Dick Cheney | Cheney and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi | Pelosi behind him.

John W. Maynor, argues that Bill Clinton was interested in these notions and that he integrated some of them into his 1995 " new social compact " State of the Union Address.

Traveling 4, 176 miles ( 6, 720 km ) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic / driver Fonce V. ( Jack ) Haney and journalist Thomas W. Wilby made the first trip by automobile across Canada ( including one short jaunt into northeastern Washington State when the Canadian roads were virtually impassable.

U. S. President George W. Bush first spoke of this " Axis of Evil " during his January 2002 State of the Union Address.