Born in the western Afghan city of Herat, he rose to become a powerful rebel commander during in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and then a key member of the Northern Alliance until finally becoming the Governor of Herat Province.

During the U. S. intervention in Afghanistan, he fought against the Taliban within the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( Northern Alliance ) and thus regained his position as Governor of Herat.

Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic system, whereby the Governor is head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.

* July 25 – Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1955 )

** Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1872 )

The New York National Guard were ordered by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to respond to the Rochester 1964 race riot in July of that year, the first such use of the Guard in a Northern city since the Civil War.

The RUC's senior officer, the Inspector General, was appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland and was responsible to the Minister of Home Affairs in the Northern Ireland Government for the maintenance of law and order.

* Randy Boyagoda, Governor of the Northern Province

* Governor General's Northern Medal

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

Spencer, who served as President of the Council and acting Governor of Virginia, was the cousin of and agent for the Barons Colepeper, proprietors of the Northern Neck.

From the PRR station during the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War, Union scout Stephen W. Pomeroy telegraphed the vital news to Governor Andrew Curtin that Robert E. Lee was concentrating the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.

Most notably, the office of Lord Lieutenant was abolished, being replaced by the new office of Governor of Northern Ireland.

Between 1922 and 1972, bills passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland were passed to the Governor for Royal Assent under the Government of Ireland Act of 1920, replacing the office of Lord Lieutenant.

In Australia, this is the Governor ( of a State ) or Administrator ( of the Northern Territory ), while in Canada, this is the Lieutenant Governor ( of a Province ) or Commissioner ( of a Territory ).

From 1921 until 1973, the British monarch was officially represented in the North by the Governor of Northern Ireland.

In October 2008, The Vines commenced a national Australian tour in support of Melodia, playing small venues across major cities throughout Australia, including The Metro Theatre ( Sydney ), ANU Bar ( Canberra ), The HiFi Bar ( Melbourne ), The Great Northern Bar ( Byron Bay ), The Tivoli ( Brisbane ), The Governor Hindmarsh ( Adelaide ), and The Rosemount Hotel ( Perth ).

The Secretary of State resides in Hillsborough Castle, the previous residence of the Governor and the official government and royal residence in Northern Ireland, and exercises their duties through the Northern Ireland Office.

* the Governor of Northern Ireland ( the nominal head of the executive and representative of the British monarch );

The Sovereign was represented by the Governor ( initially by the Lord Lieutenant ), who granted Royal Assent to Acts of Parliament in Northern Ireland, but executive power rested with the Prime Minister, the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons.

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* Governor of Southern Rhodesia

* October 24 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1876 )

* July 17 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1886 )

* June 17 – Robert James Hudson, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1885 )

* May 15 – Robert James Hudson, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1963 )

* April 14 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1931

* October 21 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1952 )

* August 12 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1946 )

On 1 April 1924, Herbert Stanley was appointed as Governor and Northern Rhodesia became an official Protectorate of the United Kingdom, with capital in Livingstone.

When Northern Rhodesia became a Protectorate under the British Empire on 1 April 1924, a Legislative Council was established on which the Governor of Northern Rhodesia sat ex officio as Presiding Officer.

The Legislative Assembly then passed an Interpretation Bill to declare that the colony could be referred to as Rhodesia ; the Bill received its third reading on December 9, 1964, and therefore passed to the Governor for assent.

When the rebellion was formally declared at an end by the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ( Amendment ) ( No. 4 ) Act 1979, the United Kingdom resumed the governance of the colony under the direct control of the Governor under the name of Southern Rhodesia.

He had worked as a political advisor to senior ministers prior to being elected and also as political advisor to the Governor of Rhodesia during its transition to independent Zimbabwe.

The Governor of Southern Rhodesia established the Rhodesia University Foundation Fund in 1947.

Under instructions from the British Government, the Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, formally dismissed Smith and his cabinet for what was deemed " an act of treason against the United Kingdom ".

Acting Administrative Secretary wrote to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia.

A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he had previously been the longtime Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1950 to 1966.

He was created a life peer in 1978 as Baron Soames, of Fletching in the County of East Sussex, and served as the interim Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1979 to 1980 between the Lancaster House Agreement and that country gaining independence as Zimbabwe.

After the war he served as Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and his death in January 1957.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

At Sir Te's estate, Shu Lien meets Jen ( Zhang Ziyi ), the daughter of Governor Yu ( Fa Zeng Li ), a visiting Manchu aristocrat.

In July 1600 Oxford wrote requesting Sir Robert Cecil's help in securing an appointment as Governor of the Isle of Jersey, once again citing the Queen's unfulfilled promises to him.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

In 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam recommended to the Queen that Sir Colin Hannah, then Governor of Queensland, have his dormant commission revoked for having made public political statements.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 – 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.

Sir Eric Woodward, the first New South Wales-born person appointed as Governor ( 1957 – 65 )

Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.

" The State's longest serving Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, was also reported as saying: " It's a political push to make way in New South Wales to lead the push for a republic.

The first Australian-( and Victorian -) born Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Winneke ( appointed 1974 ).

On Victoria obtaining responsible government in May 1855, the title of the then incumbent Lieutenant-Governor, Captain Sir Charles Hotham, became Governor.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.