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governor and general
Under Formby's plan, an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.
* Bruno Dary ( 1952-), general and military governor of Paris.
The conqueror of Babylon was Gobryas, governor of Gutium, a general of Cyrus, king of Persia.
" However, the locus of the celebrations is the national capital, Ottawa, Ontario, where large concerts and cultural displays are held on Parliament Hill, with the governor general and prime minister typically officiating, though the monarch or another member of the Royal Family may also attend or take the governor general's place.
They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.
The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.
As the Spanish Equatorial Region, it was ruled by a governor general exercising military and civilian powers.
Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.
Ghulam Mohammad, plagued by poor health, was succeeded as governor general in September 1955 by Mirza.
( 1 ) In December 1911, Bernardo Reyes ( the popular general whom Porfirio Díaz had sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission because Díaz worried that Reyes was going to challenge him for the presidency ) launched a rebellion in Nuevo León, where he had previously served as governor.
Grenada continued to practise a modified Westminster parliamentary system based on the British model with a governor general appointed by and representing the British monarch ( head of state ) and a prime minister who is both leader of the majority party and the head of government.
This action was taken in response to an appeal obtained from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, without consulting the island's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth institutions or other usual diplomatic channels ( as had been done in Anguilla ).
The governor general appointed him to be prime minister for a second time.
Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.
As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Grenada by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.
The United Kingdom is represented by a resident commissioner ( as opposed to the governor general who represents the British monarch ).
Under the French, the country formed the Territory of Guinea within French West Africa, administered by a governor general resident in Dakar.
Examples include Commonwealth realms where the individual who acts as their respective monarch resides in the oldest realm, the United Kingdom, and so is represented in the others by an appointed governor-general ( unhyphenated in Canada as governor general ) and Andorra which is headed by two non-resident co-princes, one of which is also the President of France.
The Arab army under the general command of Ahnaf ibn Qais in its conquest of Khorāsān in 652 seems to have avoided Herāt, but it can be assumed that the city submitted to the Arabs, since shortly afterwards an Arab governor is mentioned there.
He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.
Alexander proved to be enthusiastic about the Canadian wilderness, as well as a popular governor general with the Canadian people, and he would be the last non-Canadian-born governor general before the appointment of Adrienne Clarkson in 1999.

governor and lieutenant
The governor and the lieutenant governor are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms.
Sir William Phips, governor of the newly chartered Province of Massachusetts Bay, appointed his lieutenant governor, William Stoughton, as head of a special witchcraft tribunal and then as chief justice of the colonial courts, where he presided over the witch trials.
According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.
In 1891, Rivières du Sud was placed under the colonial lieutenant governor at Dakar, who had authority over the French coastal regions east to Porto-Novo ( modern Benin ).
French Guinea, along with Senegal, Dahomey, Cote-d ' Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger each were ruled by a lieutenant governor, under the Governor General in Dakar.
Thanks also to Lawrence's involvement in the Ohio Company, a land investment company funded by Virginia investors, and Lawrence's position as commander of the Virginia militia, Washington came to the notice of the new lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie.
The state constitution has provided since 1777 for the election of a lieutenant governor, who also acts as president of the state senate, to the same term ( keeping the same term lengths as the governor throughout all the constitutional revisions ).
Originally, in the event of the death, resignation or impeachment of the governor, or absence from the state, the lieutenant governor would take on the governor's duties and powers.
Since the 1938 constitution, the lieutenant governor explicitly becomes governor upon such vacancy in the office.
Should the office of lieutenant governor become vacant, the president pro tempore of the state senate performs the duties of a lieutenant governor until the governor can take back the duties of the office, or the next election ; likewise, should both offices become vacant, the president pro tempore acts as governor, with the office of lieutenant governor remaining vacant.

governor and Member
Convention dictates, that the governor must draw from the Parliament an individual to act as Premier, who is also capable of forming government — in almost all cases the Member of Parliament who commands the confidence of the Legislative Assembly.
Convention dictates, though, that the governor general must draw from the privy council an individual to act as prime minister — in almost all cases the Member of Parliament who commands the confidence of the House of Commons.
Thereafter follow three grades, which are, in order of precedence: Companion, Officer, and Member, each having accordant post-nominal letters that members are entitled to use ; each incumbent governor general is also installed as the Principal Companion for the duration of their time in the viceregal post.
* Thomas John Cochrane ( Sir )( 1789-1872 ) Cemetery plot number 21777, 1st governor of Newfoundland 1825-1834, Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1839-1841, Admiral of the fleet 1865-1872.
Other well-known speakers and lecturers in Chautauqua events of various forms included Member of the U. S. House of Representatives Champ Clark from Missouri, Missouri Governor Herbert S. Hadley, and " Fighting Bob " La Follette ( governor of Wisconsin at the time ).
He was awarded the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Chevening Scholarships programme and was nominated Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College in the University of Oxford after completing his term in office as the governor of Antioquia in 1998.
John Bowring, polyglot and fourth governor of Hong Kong, was Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock in 1835.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters OOnt ( sometimes rendered as O. Ont.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of British Columbia, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters OBC.
Member of the Order of Calatrava, in 1499, de Bobadilla was appointed to succeed Christopher Columbus as the second governor of the Indies, Spain's new territories in America, by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
He spent eight years in the 1690s as lieutenant governor of the Isle of Wight, including one year as a Member of Parliament.
In addition to his public activism within the PC Party and as a Member of Provincial Parliament, Gilchrist was very active in the community, serving as a governor of the Central Ontario YMCAs for 11 years ; vice-chair of the Rouge Park Alliance ; director of the Oak Ridges Moraine Foundation ; director of the Oak Ridge Moraine Land Trust ; director of the East Scarborough Boys & Girls Club and a member of a number of local ratepayers associations in Scarborough.
This committee then meets at least once annually to make its selected recommendations to the lieutenant governor ; posthumous nominations are not accepted, though an individual who dies after his or her name was submitted to the Advisory Council can still be retroactively made a Member of the Order of New Brunswick.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of New Brunswick, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ONB.
This committee then meets at least once annually to make its selected recommendations to the Executive Council and works with that body in narrowing down the potential appointees to a list that will be submitted to the lieutenant governor ; posthumous nominations are not accepted, though an individual who dies after his or her name was submitted to the Advisory Council can still be retroactively made a Member of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ONL.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of Prince Edward Island, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters OPEI.
This committee then meets at least once annually to make its selected recommendations to the lieutenant governor ; posthumous nominations are not accepted, though an individual who dies after his or her name was submitted to the Advisory Council can still be retroactively made a Member of the Order of Manitoba.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of Manitoba, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province.
The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of Nova Scotia, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province ; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ONS.
After her election as governor of Piedmont, she resigned from the office as Member of European Parliament.
* Henry Osborn ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1694 – 1771 ), Admiral, governor of Newfoundland, and Member of Parliament
* Anthony J. Armentano ( 1981 – 1983 ), Served as lieutenant governor and a Member of the Supreme Court.
The three younger sons all had notable careers: Francis, became a general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803, William, became a lawyer and Member of Parliament, and Philip, who became superintendent of Bombay, a Member of Parliament, and governor of Prince of Wales Island.

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