The second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, appointed him Secretary of War on December 22, 1838.

* 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, president of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1870 )

Interestingly, the highest level consultative body available to the president is the Council of the Republic ( Conselho da República ).

The government of the Fourth Republic includes a strong presidency, a prime minister, a Council of Ministers presided over by the president, a two-chamber National Assembly, and the judiciary.

* Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic

On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

Sun Yat-sen, founder and first president of the Republic of China.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced the nationalist Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and pro-Western Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kabila named himself president, consolidated power around himself and the AFDL, and reverted the name of the country to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

* 1934 – Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia

President Mauricio Funes stated El Salvador will only have commercial ties with the People's Republic of China and promised to the ROC president that El Salvador will maintain their diplomatic ties.

The plurality election system is used in the Republic of China on Taiwan for executive offices such as county magistrates, mayors, and the president, but not for legislative seats which used the single non-transferable vote system.

He served as president of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank ; and as chargé d ' affaires for the Dominican Republic.

* 1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

* 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president of the Republic of Cape Verde.

The constitution of the Fifth French Republic provides for a prime minister who is chosen by the president, but who nevertheless must be able to gain support in the National Assembly.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In the modern Islamic Republic of Iran the rahbar ( Supreme Leader, at present Ali Khamenei ) serves as head of state, above the elected ( sometimes lay ) president, who is formally the constitutional head of government.

A devout Catholic, he was a leading Centre Party politician in the Weimar Republic, he served as Mayor of Cologne ( 1917 – 1933 ) and president of the Prussian State Council ( 1922 – 1933 ).

During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council ( Preußischer Staatsrat ) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.

Adenauer had tarnished his image when he announced he would run for the office of federal president in 1959, only to pull out when he discovered that under the Basic Law, the president had far less power than he did in the Weimar Republic.

The president asserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform.

In the 1970s under president Tolbert, Liberia strove for a more non-aligned and independent posture, and established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Eastern bloc countries.

Kornilov paid much attention to the prospects of cooperation between Russia and China in the Far East and met with the future president of China, Chiang Kai-shek.

Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, made an official visit to Mozambique in February 2007, during which he and Armando Guebuza, the president of Mozambique, pledged further cooperation in the areas of economy, technology, agriculture, education and sports.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

Nevertheless, this particular 22-year long legacy was broken when Nauru's president decided to change its allegiance and establish formal relations with China.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

The state has had good relations with the People ’ s Republic of China over the past 30 years, recently receiving the Chinese president ( February 2009 ).

The Day After was the idea of ABC Motion Picture Division president Brandon Stoddard, who, after watching The China Syndrome, was so impressed that he envisioned creating a film exploring the effects of nuclear war on the United States.

Since 1998 People's Republic of China-Venezuela relations have seen an increasing partnership between the government of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and the People's Republic of China.

* March 23 – The Republic of China or Taiwan holds its first direct elections for president ; Lee Teng-hui is re-elected.

* May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.

Ceaușescu negotiated in international affairs, such as the opening of US relations with China in 1969 and the visit of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel in 1977.

In a twist of events, President Chen and PFP Chairman Soong held a summit and the independence-leaning president indicated that eventual reunification with mainland China would be an option.

The current president Ma Ying-Jeou advocates as well for the revitalization of Chinese culture, as in the re-introduction of Traditional Chinese in texts to mainland China used in Taiwan and historically in China before the communist revolution in 1949.

In this system, as in the Parliamentary system, there are both a president and a prime minister ; but unlike the parliamentary system, the president may have significant day-to-day power.

However, unlike his predecessor ( Theodore Roosevelt ), Taft felt that the president should not dictate lawmaking and should leave Congress free to act as it saw fit.

Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

It is important to note that the president of the Republic of China, unlike the president of the United States, does not wield veto power, providing him with little to no leverage in negotiating with an opposition legislature, regardless of how slim the majority.

In addition, unlike those other administrative divisions, they are not run by elected officials, but by political appointees, officials appointed by the French president.

Similarly, unlike implicatures, entailments cannot be cancelled ; there is no qualification that one could add to " The president was assassinated " which would cause it to cease entailing " The president is dead " while also preserving the meaning of the first sentence.

It was intended that the president would rule in conjunction with the Reichstag ( legislature ) and that his emergency powers would be exercised only in extraordinary circumstances, but the political instability of the Weimar period, and a paralysing factionalism in the legislature, meant that the president came to occupy a position of considerable power ( not unlike that of the German Emperor he replaced ), capable of legislating by decree and appointing and dismissing governments at will.

Incumbents are permitted to stand for re-election, but unlike the president of the United States, who can be elected just twice, incumbents can be elected for any number of terms.

Other alternatives were considered, such as keeping the old name, Estádio das Antas ( officially, unlike the former stadium ), or name after former player Pinga, former manager José Maria Pedroto, or president Pinto da Costa ( holding office since 1982 ).

She said that Päts was buried like a president – in a coffin, unlike other deceased patients of the time.

Whilst Tizard was next in line, Labour Party president Andrew Little expressed preference for Louisa Wall to replace Hughes as she intended to contest the upcoming 2011 general election, unlike Tizard and the four other list candidates preceding Wall ( Mark Burton, Mahara Okeroa, Martin Gallagher and Dave Hereora ).

The event, officially called the Walker Cup Match ( not " Matches ", unlike the professional Ryder Cup Matches ), is co-organised by the R & A and the United States Golf Association, and is named in honor of George Herbert Walker ( grandfather and namesake of the George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States and great-grandfather of George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States ), who was president of the USGA in 1920 when the series was initiated.

Leen van Zandvliet, Feyenoord's president in the 1930s, came up with the idea of building an entirely new stadium, unlike any other on the continent, with two free hanging tiers and no obstacles blocking the view.

Many years later, in his book The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Southern president Jefferson Davis opined that " The expedient of the bales of hemp was a brilliant conception, not unlike that which made Tarik, the Saracen warrior, immortal, and gave his name to the northern pillar of Hercules.