Agnew's Vice Presidency was also the highest-ranking US political office ever reached by either a Greek American citizen or a Marylander.

Former Governor and Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew, the highest-ranking government official ever to come from Maryland.

Having retired as a colonel in the United States Army Reserve, he was the highest-ranking military officer ever accused of spying.

Wilkins worked as a welfare lawyer in Ohio before becoming an Assistant Attorney General in President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration at age 33, one of the highest-ranking blacks ever to serve in the executive branch up to that time.

* Ion Mihai Pacepa chemist, general and the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern Bloc

She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor.

According to Oleg Gordievsky ( the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect ) and Pavel Sudoplatov ( former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR ), Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent.

The same WHO note ranks antidepressants according to withdrawal, with paroxetine having the highest number of withdrawal syndrome reports and fluoxetine the highest number of drug dependence reports ; the note concludes, " Three SSRIs are among the 30 highest-ranking drugs in the list of drugs for which drug dependence has ever been reported to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre database ; a total of 269 reports had been received as of June 2002 ( 109 reports for fluoxetine, 91 for paroxetine and 69 for sertraline ).

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

Integrating François Mitterrand's circle, he became the second highest-ranking member of the party in 1979, then its First Secretary when Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981.

Only Consuls ( the highest-ranking of all Roman Magistrates ) could preside over the Century Assembly during elections because the higher-ranking Consuls were always elected together with the lower-ranking Praetors.

Shaw was the highest-ranking Muslim elected official in the United States until the election of Keith Ellison to represent Minnesota's 5th congressional district.

Meanwhile, he practiced law, and entered politics in 1958, being elected to the state legislature of Washington, in which he served from 1959 until 1969, becoming one of the highest-ranking members.

First elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority ( 1991 – 1995 ) and minority ( 1995 – 2002 ), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively.

Kehoe was elected Assembly Speaker pro Tempore, the Assembly's second highest-ranking position.

Until his defeat in 2006 Eder was one of only a handful of independent or third party state legislators in the country and was the highest-ranking elected Green official in the United States.

Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U. S. history until Anh Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008.

From 2002 to 2006, the highest-ranking elected Green in the United States was John Eder, who served in the Maine House of Representatives for Portland's West End neighborhood.

A resident of Mar Vista, the largest community in the 11th District, Rosendahl is the first openly gay man elected to the Los Angeles City Council, and is the city ’ s highest-ranking GLBT official.

By virtue of her election as Kentucky's governor, Collins became the highest-ranking Democratic woman in the nation.

Dukes were the rulers of the provinces and the superiors of the counts in the cities and later, in the feudal monarchies, the highest-ranking peers of the king.

The two highest-ranking RUC officers to be killed in the Troubles were Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan when they were ambushed by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade outside Jonesborough, County Armagh, on 20 March 1989.

Driver Brian O ' Driscoll and third passenger Brian Cubbon ( aged 57, the highest-ranking civil servant in Northern Ireland at the time ) were injured.

* one of the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, earlier, the five that were included in the Pentarchy: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, but now nine, excluding Rome and including patriarchs of Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania ; or

Following him were Imam Muhtadi and Imam Qahir, also living in concealment from the general population, but in touch with the highest-ranking members of the Ismaili hierarchy ( hudūd ).

Still, they remained the highest-ranking lawyer and instrumental to the legal and court process as Germanic-type oral proceedings were unknown and Roman legalistic traditions survived intact.

The highest-ranking cards, starting with the aces and kings, were used for the people at the top of the most-wanted list.

Three new generals came to power at Pelican Bay, yet two were demoted, leaving only David " DC " Cervantes as the highest-ranking member of the gang in California.

On September 14, Zhou announced to the Politburo that four of the highest-ranking military officials in China were immediately suspended from duty and ordered to submit self-criticisms admitting their associations with Lin.

The College of Pontiffs or Collegium Pontificum ( see collegium ) was a body of the ancient Roman state whose members were the highest-ranking priests of the state religion.

The current President, Trương Tấn Sang, is the Politburo's highest-ranking member, the first time in history were the top decision maker in the Politburo does not concurrently hold a high-ranking party office.

Upon learning that only the highest-ranking officials of the Confederacy were being punished, and that it might be possible for all others to have their civil rights restored, he returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tennessee.

Local functionaries were the highest-ranking people of the chungin class.

In the aftermath of Operation Black Widow, the five highest-ranking leaders of Nuestra Familia, James " Tibbs " Morado, Joseph " Pinky " Hernandez, Gerald " Cuete " Rubalcaba, Cornelio Tristan, and Tex Marin Hernandez, were transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado.

Eventually, three new generals came to power at Pelican Bay, yet two were demoted, leaving only David " DC " Cervantes as the highest-ranking member of the gang in California.

** a significant example is the College of Pontiffs whose members were the highest-ranking priests of the state religion.

He was the second highest-ranking member of the Military Affairs Commission at the time that he was purged, and the method in which he and those close to him were purged set the pattern for multiple later purges of the PLA leadership throughout the Cultural Revolution.

McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II ; McNair and Buckner were both promoted posthumously to general, on July 19, 1954, by Act of Congress.

The tribunal recognized this defense only for some of the lower-ranked defendants, but concluded that in particular the highest-ranking officers, List and Kuntze, should have been well aware of the fact that these orders violated international law and thus should have opposed the execution of these orders, even more so as they were in a position that would have allowed them to do so.

Some of the characters close to Tito whom Maclean met in his first months in Bosnia were Vlatko Velebit, an urbane young man about town, who later went with Maclean to Allied HQ as a liaison officer ; Father Vlado ( Vlado Zechevich ), a Serbian Orthodox priest, " raconteur and trencherman "; Arso Jovanović, the Chief of Staff ; Edo Kardelj, the Marxist theoretician who ended up vice-premier ; Aleksandar Ranković, a professional revolutionary and Party organiser ; Milovan Đilas ( Dzilas ), who became vice-president ; Moša Pijade, one of the highest-ranking Jews ; and a young woman named Olga whose father had been a minister in the Royalist government and who spoke English like a debutante.

When Thomas Wyatt the younger instigated what became known as Wyatt's rebellion, John Ponet, the highest-ranking ecclesiastic among the exiles, allegedly participated in the uprising.

The highest-ranking officer, Colonel John Todd of Fayette County, was in overall command.

The highest-ranking Soviet Bloc intelligence defector, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa claimed to have a conversation he had with Nicolae Ceauşescu, who told him about " ten international leaders the Kremlin killed or tried to kill ": Laszlo Rajk and Imre Nagy from Hungary ; Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej from Romania ; Rudolf Slánský and Jan Masaryk from Czechoslovakia ; the Shah of Iran ; Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan ; Palmiro Togliatti from Italy ; John F. Kennedy ; and Mao Zedong.

* John ' Jack ' Halford ( Ex-Detective Chief Superintendent ) ( James Bolam ) ( 2003 – 2012 ): The highest-ranking retired officer on the team, and the first to be approached by Sandra when setting up UCOS, Jack Halford is unofficial second-in-command.