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The youngest person elected General Superintendent was Roy T. Williams ( 1883 – 1946 ), who was only 32 when chosen to fill a vacancy caused by the deaths of Phineas F. Bresee ( 1837 – 1915 ) and William C. Wilson ( 1866 – 1915 ), both of whom died within weeks of the 1915 General Assembly.
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Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.
He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense.
In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.
He was awarded the Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France from 1952 until his death in 1961, making him the youngest person to have been elected to a Chair.
* 2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
* 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
Their youngest daughter Luna — beaten to death in an apparent robbery in the store where she worked in 1976 at the age of 15 — became the first person to have her brain preserved by the Bay Area Cryonics Society.
When he assumed the presidency, Grant had never before held elected office and, at the age of 46, was the youngest person yet elected president.
The youngest person on Flight 175 was 2½-year-old Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, and the oldest was 80-year-old Dorothy DeAurajo of Long Beach, California.
She is the youngest person to ever win this award, a record she held until 2010.
* July 8 – Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in history ( age 15 years and 282 days ) to win at Wimbledon in the Ladies ' Doubles event.
* July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
Ben Fleetwood is probably the youngest person to have completed a round.
At the age of just 21, Alex also became the youngest person to have completed a continuous round without the use of any motorised transport.
Henry was the only child and heir of King Henry V. He was born on 6 December 1421 at Windsor Castle, and succeeded to the throne at the age of nine months as King of England on 31 August 1422 when his father died, thus making him the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne.
At age 29, he was the youngest person to hold this position.
To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51.
In August 1985, Steve Trotter, an aspiring stunt man from Rhode Island, became the youngest person ever ( age 22 ) and the first American in 25 years to go over the falls in a barrel.
At the age of 17, he became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he was a member of Group 10 ( 1977 – 1981 ).
captain Steven Gerrard, was the youngest person to die.
If this is already too much to handle, we might keep only the age of the youngest, m and oldest person, M. If the question is about an age strictly lower than m or strictly higher than M, then we may safely respond that no such participant was present.
For his performance, Jackie Cooper, at the age of nine, became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Taking office the day before his 40th birthday, Clark is the youngest person to become Prime Minister.
He graduated aged just 22, the youngest person to do so until recent times.
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-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.
Eisenhower, who was the oldest president in history at that time ( then 70 ), was succeeded by the youngest elected president, as Kennedy was 43.
Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.
Sworn into office on the 6th November, he became one of Mexico ´ s youngest elected presidents having just turned 38.
As his son, Frederick II, though already elected king, was still a small child and living in Sicily, German princes chose to elect an adult king, which resulted in the dual election of Frederick Barbarossa's youngest son Philip of Swabia and Henry the Lion's son Otto of Brunswick, who competed for the crown.
Moore began his parliamentary career when elected as the MP for Eden in 1972, becoming the youngest Member of Parliament ever elected in New Zealand.
Appointed to the Senate at the age of 26, she was the youngest woman ever to become a member of the Parliament of Australia, until Sarah Hanson-Young was elected in 2007.
He was elected in an election held at Perugia that lasted four months while cardinals argued over whether to call in Charles of Anjou, the youngest brother of King Louis IX of France to carry on the papal war against the imperial house of Hohenstaufen.
Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever ; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.
* November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become ( at 43 ) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.
The same year he was elected to the House of Representatives as its youngest member.
* Edward C. Pickering ( 1846 – 1919 ) was the youngest scientist elected.
In 1901, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected to the Académie française.
Following the defeat of the longstanding Liberal government in 1982, Kennett was the leading candidate to replace Lindsay Thompson, and on 26 October, he was elected Leader of the Liberal Party, despite being the youngest member of the outgoing Cabinet.
In October 1911, she won second prize in the Croydon Art Society's poster competition, and shortly afterward was elected the youngest member of the Society.
Then 22 years old, he was and remained the youngest Assemblyman ever to be elected to office.
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Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.
On the same day, his youngest brother Orazio was appointed Captain General of the Church at the head of the papal army.
Peel married Julia, youngest daughter of General Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet, in 1820.
General William P. Roberts from the county was the youngest general of the Civil War.
It was the 54th county established in Illinois and was named after Daniel Cook, one of the earliest and youngest statesmen in Illinois history, who served as the second U. S. Representative from Illinois and the state's first Attorney General.
" In 1913, John McClellan at the age of 17, became the youngest lawyer in Arkansas history after the Arkansas General Assembly passed a special act that waived the age requirement to permit him to join the bar, making him the youngest attorney in the United States.
* Adella Wotherspoon ( 1903 – 2004 ), youngest and longest-lived survivor of the General Slocum, a steamship that sank in the East River killing over 1, 000 in 1904.
The town is named for the celebrated trial lawyer of Texas and Oklahoma Territory, Temple Lea Houston ( 1860 – 1905 ), the youngest son of General Sam Houston.
A graduate of University College Dublin, Ó Dálaigh was a committed Fianna Fáil supporter who served on the party's National Executive in the 1930s, he became Ireland's youngest Attorney General in 1946 under Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, serving until 1948.
Unsuccessful in Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann elections in 1948 and 1951, he was re-appointed as Attorney General in 1951 and in 1953 he was appointed as the youngest member of the Supreme Court by his mentor, de Valera.
He was already well known in the automobile industry as a capable engineer, business innovator, and youngest person to become a General Motors ( GM ) executive.
In March 1912, after assignments in the Philippines and Alaska Territory that saw him tour battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War and conclude that war with Japan was inevitable one day, Mitchell was one of 21 officers selected to serve on the General Staff — at the time, its youngest member at age 32.
Freyberg gained promotion to the rank of temporary Brigadier General ( although he still had the permanent rank of only Captain ) and took command of a brigade in the 58th Division in April 1917, which reportedly made him the youngest general officer in the British Army.
Yuma AFB was renamed on 13 October 1956 as Vincent Air Force Base, the installation was named for Brigadier General Clinton D. " Casey " Vincent, one of Major General Claire Chennault's top fighter leaders in the China-Burma Theater and the second youngest General Officer in U. S. Air Force history, receiving his star at the age of 29.
He appointed the youngest Queens Counsel attorney in the Commonwealth at that time, Berthan Macaulay, to serve as his Attorney General.
At 44, this made him the youngest General in the French Army.
Peel was the youngest son of the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel by his wife Julia, daughter of General Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet, and was named after Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington.
* Ligon Duncan-Senior Minister-First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS ( PCA ), Moderator of the PCA General Assembly ( 2004 ), the youngest ever elected, and president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was the third and youngest son of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie ( 1770 – 1838 ), one of Wellington's generals, who, after being Governor General of Canada, became Commander-in-Chief in India, and of his wife Christina née Broun of Colstoun, Haddingtonshire ( East Lothian ).
* Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox ( 1764 – 1819 ), only son of General Lord George Lennox, fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Duke
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