Posthumus later went on to be elected State Senator, Senate Majority Leader and Lieutenant Governor.

The first German Governor, Wilhelm Solf, later went on to become Secretary for the Colonies of Imperial Germany.

In, 1962, during Hollings ' term as Governor, the Confederate flag went up above the South Carolina Statehouse where it was flown underneath the US and state flags.

Sir Alexander Ball led Maltese insurgents against the French in the 1798 uprising, and went on to become the first British Governor of Malta.

Findley's third novel, The Wars, was published to great acclaim in 1977 and went on to win the Governor General's Award for fiction.

One of the first white settlers to come to Wyandotte in the years after the Native Americans left was John Biddle, a Pennsylvania-born former Army major who fought in the War of 1812 and later went on to a prolific political career, serving as mayor of Detroit, delegate from the Territory of Michigan in the U. S. Congress, president of the Michigan Central Railroad, member and later speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and one-time candidate for Michigan Governor.

Gen. Scott went on to the 1794 victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and served as Governor from 1808-1812.

The last time the county went for the Democratic candidate for President was when it favored incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 over Kansas Governor Alf Landon.

The county was named for Dr. William Wyatt Bibb, a physician from Elbert County who went on to serve in the United States Senate and House of Representatives before becoming the first elected Governor of Alabama.

He went on to serve in the Illinois House of Representatives, in the United States House of Representatives, and finally as Governor of Illinois in 1860.

In 1911, the people of the Pottawatomie County went to the polls and giving Tecumseh the majority by 7, 749 to 5, 927 until October of 1930 when 6, 700 signatures were petitioned to ask Governor William J. Holloway for a county seat ballot.

In the mid-1990s supporters of the idea of incorporating Hickory Withe went to Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee John S. Wilder, who is from nearby Braden and has represented the area in the Tennessee State Senate since 1966, with the idea of sponsoring a bill which would allow Hickory Withe to incorporate, something which could not be accomplished under the then-existing law.

Governor Isaac Stevens went to the Indian encampment on Fox Island to renegotiate the 1854 Treaty of Medicine Creek, which had been a major factor in the outbreak of war.

The California legislature went on to approve medical marijuana bills by State Senator Milton Marks and Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, but they were vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson.

He went on to serve as Governor of Gibraltar ( 1941 – 42 ).

On January 10, 1947, Governor Chen Yi announced that the new ROC Constitution would not apply to Taiwan after it went into effect in mainland China on December 25, 1947 as Taiwan was still under military occupation and also that Taiwanese were politically naive and were not capable of self-governing.

Under Governor Musgrove, the Princeton Review reported that school accountability standards in Mississippi went from 50th nationally to the top 20.

The mob then went to Governor Shirley's house, demanding the release of the men impressed by Knowles.

For ten years the two men, each at the head of a powerful party, went back and forth as Governor of the colony.

He went home to Virginia to lead a brigade of the state's militia at the request of Governor Thomas Jefferson.

Also in 1473, King Edward IV appointed Rivers Governor of the Prince of Wales ' household, and Rivers went with the prince to Ludlow Castle.

Roswell P. Flower, born in Theresa in 1835, graduated from Theresa High School and went on to serve as assistant postmaster of Watertown, N. Y. 1854-1860, a Congressman representing New York in the 47th, 51st and 52nd Congresses, and Governor of New York from 1891 until 1895.

* Kinsley S. Bingham was born in the town of Camillus and went on to be a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, Speaker, United States Representitave from Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, Governor of Michigan, and a US Senator.

The Governor General travelled the length and breadth of the country, meeting with Canadians wherever he went.

) There is a story that José Rizal's mother, Doña Teodora Alonzo Mercado, went up these stairs on her knees to beg then Governor General Camilo Polavieja for her son's life.

In June 1845, the Governor and Council of Assiniboia imposed a 20 per cent duty on imports via Hudson's Bay which were viewed as aimed at the `` very vitals of the Company's trade and power ''.

Governor Wentworth contributed an ox for a barbecue on the green beneath the three-hundred-foot pines, and a barrel of rum was broached.

Governor Gawler took over from Hindmarsh in late 1838 and, despite being under orders from the Select Committee on South Australia in Britain not to undertake any public works, promptly oversaw construction of a governor's house, the Adelaide Gaol, police barracks, a hospital, a customs house and a wharf at Port Adelaide.

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

Due to his youthful appearance, Clinton was often called the " Boy Governor ", a referent that continues to be used to refer to him during his gubernatorial era on occasion.

On April 28, 2011 Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed legislation allowing local communities to vote on whether to allow alcohol sales on Sundays.

Executive authority in British Virgin Islands is vested in The Queen and is exercised on her behalf by the Governor of the British Virgin Islands.

The Governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Government.

By 1972, however, with only a minimum of work done on the I-95 right of way and none on the potentially massively disruptive Inner Belt, Governor Francis Sargent put a moratorium on highway construction within the MA-128 corridor, except for a short stretch of Interstate 93.

The Bank of England, formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.

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

He returned to his base of operations on Saint Christopher Island and reported the matter to Governor Walter Hamilton, who requested that he sign an affidavit about the encounter.

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on Gardiners Island in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field ; however, it was removed by Governor Bellomont and sent to England to be used as evidence against him.

He served as the 36th Governor of New York ( 1907 – 1910 ), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1910 – 1916 ), United States Secretary of State ( 1921 – 1925 ), a judge on the Court of International Justice ( 1928 – 1930 ), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1930 – 1941 ).

After the commissioners submitted their report to the Governor on November 25, 1896, the Legislature replaced the Bureau with the Department of Highways.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

Governor Tryon and the Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, which were frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language, while the Boys continued to drive surveyors and incoming tenants on New York-granted lands away.

On July 4, Allen and Warner made their case to New York's Provincial Congress, which, despite the fact that the Royal Governor had placed a price on their heads, agreed to the formation of a regiment.

Allen wrote another pamphlet in response, entitled An Address to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont ; with Remarks on a Proclamation under the Hand of his Excellency George Clinton, Esq ; Governor of the State of New York.

To this effect, Chinna Venkatadri was sent to negotiate with the local Governor on August 4, 1687.