Lord Dufferin, the current Governor General, expressed early misgivings about a stonemason taking over government.

The current Governor is William Boyd McCleary ( since 2010 ).

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

" There have also been other politicians who did not view the way that Doonesbury portrayed them very favorably, including former U. S. House Speaker Tip O ' Neill and former / current California Governor Jerry Brown.

The current Governor is Professor Marie Bashir, who has served since 1 March 2001 ; Labor Premier Bob Carr recommended her to replace former Justice Gordon Samuels.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

The current Governor of Victoria is former judge Alex Chernov.

The current Governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party.

John H. Lynch ( born November 25, 1952 ) is the 80th and current Governor of New Hampshire.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

The current premier is Colin Barnett, who was sworn into office by Governor Ken Michael on 23 September 2008.

The current system, under the Seventeenth Amendment, allows Governors to appoint a replacement only if their state legislature has previously decided to allow the Governor to do so ; otherwise, the seat must remain vacant until the special election is held to fill the seat, as in the case of a vacancy in the House.

** Sean Parnell, American current Governor of Alaska ( as of 2011 )

In 1946, prior to the current ban on fusion being enacted in that state, Republican Governor of California Earl Warren ( a future Chief Justice of the United States ) managed to win the nominations of the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive Parties.

The current Governor of West Virginia is Earl Ray Tomblin ( D ), who previously served as Lieutenant Governor of West Virginia and replaced Manchin after his election to the Senate in November 2010.

She currently plays the lead role on USA Network's Political Animals as Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and Governor of Illinois, as well as the current Secretary of State.

A current list of directors is available from the Canadian Governor in Council here.

The current Governor is Lodewijk De Witte, he has been the Governor of Flemish Brabant since it was created in 1995 as a result of the splitting up of the Province of Brabant.

In October 2009, Dr. Delisle Worrell, who is slated to become the replacement Governor of Barbados ' Central Bank of Barbados and current Executive Director of the Centre for Money and Finance at the UWI Cave Hill Campus revealed that " the average Barbadian now earns between BDS $ 200 and BDS $ 499 per week ...."

Lagos, subsequent to the re-modernization project achieved by the current administration of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola, is gradually becoming a major tourist destination, being one of the largest cities in Africa and in the world.

Mobilian was used from the Florida northwest coast and area of the current Alabama-Georgia border westward as far as eastern Texas and in the north from the lower Mississippi Valley ( currently south and central Illinois ) to the southern Mississippi River Delta region in the south.

Its current borders include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lower Michigan, and parts of Kentucky, Iowa and Ontario.

File: DeWitt County Illinois 1845. png | DeWitt County in 1845, when it was reduced to its current size

File: Adams County Illinois 1829. png | Adams County reduced to its current borders in 1829.

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116, 250 ( U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2010 ), making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

File: Clay County Illinois 1841. png | Clay County was reduced to its current size in 1841 by the creation of Richland County.

File: Will County Illinois 1853. png | Will County in 1853, reduced to its current borders by the creation of Kankakee County

File: Warren County Illinois 1841. png | Warren County in 1841, reduced to its current borders by the creation of Henderson County

File: Vermilion County Illinois 1833. png | The county between 1833 and 1836, after Vermilion proper was reduced to its current borders through the creation of Champaign and Iroquois Counties

File: Vermilion County Illinois 1853. png | Vermilion County after 1853, when the unorganized territory was reduced to its current size.

File: Vermilion County Illinois 1859. png | In 1859 the additional territory was split off as Ford County, reducing Vermilion to its current borders.

File: Knox County Illinois 1839. png | Knox County in 1839, when it was reduced slightly to its current size

File: Iroquois County Illinois 1853. png | Iroquois County in 1853, when the creation of Kankakee County reduced it to its current size.

File: Jackson County Illinois 1818. png | Jackson County in 1827, when it was reduced slightly to its current size

File: Fulton County Illinois 1825. png | Fulton County in 1825, reduced to its current size, its unorganized territory formed into new counties.

File: Franklin County Illinois 1839. png | The creation of Williamson County in 1839 reduced Franklin to its current borders.

File: Ford County Illinois 1859. png | The creation of Douglas and Ford Counties in 1859 resulted in Illinois ' current county map.

File: Fayette County Illinois 1831. png | Fayette in 1831, when the creation of Effingham County reduced it to its current size

File: Douglas County Illinois 1859. png | The creation of Douglas and Ford Counties in 1859 resulted in Illinois ' current county map.

File: Crawford County Illinois 1831. png | In 1831, the creation of Jasper and Effingham Counties reduced Crawford to its current size.

File: Cook County Illinois 1839. png | Cook County was reduced to its current size in 1839 by the creation of DuPage County.