He served in the legislature of the colonial Province of Canada and by 1857 had become premier under the colony's unstable political system.

Douglas-Home, as at 2012, is the last former premier to have served under a successor.

He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992.

He has also served on the boards of many of America's premier think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution.

Schreyer led his party to a watershed electoral victory in the 1969 provincial election and was subsequently appointed by Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba Richard Spink Bowles as his premier, in which position Schreyer served until 1977.

He served as premier of the colony of New Brunswick from 1861 until his government was defeated in the election of 1865.

From 1971 to 1982, he served as deputy premier of Saskatchewan.

He quelled several major rebellions and served in important positions of the Imperial Court, including the premier viceroyalty of Zhili.

He co-hosted a morning radio program with Puerto Rican entrepreneur and musician Silverio Pérez, and served as part of the comedic team behind Desafiando a los Genios, a popular TV mock quiz show starring, among others, actor, writer and film director Jacobo Morales and Puerto Rico's premier comedic actor, José Miguel Agrelot.

Mehmet Ismail Shehu ( January 10, 1913 – December 17, 1981 ) was an Albanian communist politician who served as premier of Albania from 1954 to 1981.

He also served as vice premier from 1954 to 1972 and foreign minister from 1958 to 1972 and president of the China Foreign Affairs University from 1961 to 1969.

Sir Hugh Hoyles ( born October 17, 1814 ) was a politician and lawyer who served as the third premier of the Newfoundland Colony.

Hoyles was the first premier of Newfoundland to have been born in the colony, and served from 1861 to 1865.

Beginning in January 1963, Arlington Hall served as the premier facility of the newly created Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

Handley served one term as premier and did not run in the election held on October 1, 2007.

Blair led a very successful government and served as premier of the province for 13 years.

Frenette served as premier for the following seven months while the party chose a new leader.

Frenette was replaced by Camille Thériault who served as premier until the 1999 election.

Vivian had previously served as premier for a brief period from 12 December 1992 to 9 March 1993 following the death of Sir Robert Rex.

He served as premier of Nova Scotia from 1860 to 1863 and led the unsuccessful fight against Canadian Confederation from 1866 to 1868.

Later, he served as chief of staff to Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield and then was New Brunswick premier Richard Hatfield's senior advisor.

Despite efforts by Louis Robichaud, an Acadian who served as the province's premier between the 1960 and 1970 elections, to modernize through investment in education and business promotion by instituting what was called an equal opportunity program, some Acadians felt they would be better served by their own administration.

He served as both premier and Attorney-General of Ontario from July 15, 1867 to 1871.

The sisters turned the house into one of Scotland's premier tourist attractions after they had to rely on paying visitors to afford the upkeep of the house.

Johnson's " unwavering commitment to the Union " was a significant factor in making him Lincoln's choice as vice president on the Union Party's premier ticket that year.

Although the National Association held on for a few more seasons, it was no longer recognized as the premier organization for professional baseball.

The result was his principal work, On War, the West's premier work on the philosophy of war.

President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General ( vacated by Su ) to the departing premier, but Hsieh declined and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line on dealing with the PRC.

In his history of the game, historian David Nelson concluded that the first forward passes were thrown on Christmas Day 1905 in a match between two small colleges in Kansas: " Although Cochems was the premier passing coach during the first year of the rule, the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.

on 7 May 1853, the Russians sent Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, one their premier statesmen to negotiate a settlement of the issue.

It should also be noted that the wording of the Basic Law on the term of the Chief Executive is substantially different from the articles in the PRC constitution concerning the length of term of the president, premier, etc.

Based on ice sledge hockey, inline sledge hockey is played to the same rules as inline puck hockey ( essentially ice hockey played off ice using inline skates ) and has been made possible by the design and manufacture of inline sledges by RGK, Europe ’ s premier sports wheelchair maker.

A Parade of Mirrors and Reflections, a novella by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, centers on the cloning of deceased Soviet premier Yuri Andropov.

Immediately after the Civil War, Pro-Confederation premier Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, along with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada.

As a result, a month after the South was granted independence as the Republic of Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) was proclaimed on September 9, with Kim as premier.

Chinese premier Zhou Enlai visited Pyongyang that year and apologized for the attacks made on Kim by the Red Guards.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

The most recent premier to die was Eric Willis on 10 May 1999 at age 77.

The most recent premier to die was Lindsay Thompson ( 1981 – 82 ), on 16 July 2008.

The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ( 1969 – 72 ), on 27 August 2004.

The most recently-serving premier to die was Jim Bacon ( 1998 – 2004 ), on 20 June 2004.

The most recent premier to die was Joh Bjelke-Petersen ( 1968 – 1987 ), on 23 April 2005.

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

Nonetheless, John Forrest immediately adopted the title on taking office as first premier of Western Australia in 1890, and it has been used ever since.

Robyn is featured on Norway's premier electronic outfit Röyksopp's 2009 album Junior with the song " The Girl and the Robot ".

St Helena coffee grown on the Bamboo Hedge Estate at Sandy Bay won a premier award at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851.

The position of premier was then handed over to Lee Moore, who, despite being recognized regionally as a legal scholar, seemed unable to lead ( he once told a PAM heckler, on Church Street in front of Government Headquarters of Parliament that he will " root like a pig in mud " in the House of Parliament ).

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.