Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

Cannon was chairman to the Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses ), Committee on Rules ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ), and Speaker of the House of Representatives ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ).

The chairman of a powerful standing committee, Bob Livingston, who chaired the Appropriations Committee, declared his bid for speakership which was unopposed, making him Speaker-elect.

Even before becoming chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Stevens secured large sums of federal money for the state of Alaska.

First elected to the Senate in 1978, he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and was its chairman from 2005 to 2007.

In 2005, he was appointed as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, making him the first Republican from a former Confederate state to chair the committee.

Following Gingrich's announcement, Appropriations Committee chairman Bob Livingston of Louisiana became the presumptive Speaker-elect until December 1998, when, during House debate over its still-ongoing impeachment proceedings, he admitted to extramarital affairs himself and withdrew his name from consideration as Speaker.

At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

During his tenure, he served as chairman of the Appropriations Committee and served 22 years as chairman of the Committee on Government Operations.

During the later part of his Senate service Arkansas had, perhaps, the most powerful Congressional delegations with McClellan as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Wilbur Mills as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Oren Harris as chairman of the House Commerce Committee, Senator J. William Fulbright as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Took Gathings as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, and James William Trimble as a member of the powerful House Rules Committee.

From 1881 – 93 and again from 1895 to 1908, he was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where he had great influence.

A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

While in the Senate, Burns sat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and was the chairman of its Subcommittee on the Interior.

Obey served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 2007 to 2011 ; he briefly chaired this committee from 1994 to 1995 and served as its ranking Democrat from 1995 to 2007.

A Republican, he is a former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, serving in that role during the 109th Congress.

In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) named Lewis one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, saying that his " ethics issues stem primarily from the misuse of his position as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to family and friends in direct exchange for contributions to his campaign committee and political action committee.

Lewis, who has not faced serious opposition in his re-election campaigns in the past ten years, has used his campaign and PAC funds in support of other Republicans, something that helped him become chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

The House Ethics Committee investigated several members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, including Moran, Peter J. Visclosky, Norm Dicks, Marcy Kaptur and the late John Murtha, who was the chairman at the time, for a conflict of interest in the allocation of the government contracts to clients of the PMA Group, which donated nearly a million dollars to Moran's political action committee, as well as a significant amount of money to the gubernatorial campaign of Moran's younger brother, Brian.

Livingston first came to national attention in 1995, when he was named chairman of the Appropriations Committee after the Republican takeover of the House.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sandman announced the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Copeland Greenfield of 330 Woodland Ave., Westfield, as state chairman of the Republican Women for Jones Committee.

Shea, the chairman of Mayor Wagner's Baseball Committee, will be joined on the dais by Warren Spahn, the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee Braves ; ;

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Bolker will give a dinner on Friday at their home in Beverly Hills to honor Mrs. Norman Chandler, chairman of the Music Center Building Fund Committee, and Mr. Chandler.

Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

As chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense, Johnson continued his relentless opposition to spending, especially when the capital city was the beneficiary ; he argued it was egregious to expect citizens in other states to fund the infrastructure of another locality, regardless of the fact it was the seat of government.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

* Ingemar Lundström, physicist, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics

At the time of the strike he was chairman of the Stepney Borough Electricity Committee.

There were exceptions, Leonard W. Hall, for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried to open the administration's eyes to the political facts of life, with occasional success.

William D. Lutz, serves as the third chairman of the Doublespeak Committee since 1975 to the present.

Dewar gained a parliamentary platform as chairman of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.

When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

The Anti-Fascist Committee for National Liberation was founded, with Hoxha as its chairman.

There is also a Public Accounts Committee consisting of a chairman and two other members appointed by the Governor ( in consultation with the elected MLAs ) and two elected members of the Legislative Assembly.

* 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

* John Ford ( Oklahoma politician ) ( born 1945 ), American political figure ; elected 2004 as Republican member of Oklahoma State Senate ; chairman of Education Committee

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.