When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.

When his term expired he was elected to the same seat ( by the Mississippi legislature, as the constitution mandated at the time ).

When elected by the legislature, Clay was below the constitutionally required age of thirty.

When the first counties were created by the Kansas legislature in 1855, the territory within the present limits of the county was attached to Riley County for all revenue and judicial purposes.

When the legislature decided to relocate there, they proposed the name " Missouriopolis " but later settled on Jefferson City.

When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, Wisconsin.

When Tasmania granted Betfair a license despite these efforts the Western Australian state legislature passed a law that specifically criminalised using betting exchanges from within the state ; however, that law was later ruled to be unconstitutional.

When the extent of the Separatist threat becomes clear in Episode II, the Old Republic Senate, the legislature of the Republic, grants Palpatine emergency powers to deal with the crisis.

When Florida was admitted as a state, Levy was elected by the new state legislature as one of Florida's first two U. S. Senators ; he served from 1845 to 1851, and again from 1855 to 1861.

When he arrived in Williamsburg, the legislature was already in session.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan ( the Meiji Constitution ) provided for the Imperial Diet ( Teikoku Gikai ), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who were over twenty-five years of age and paid fifteen yen in national taxes, about one percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees ; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature.

When the territorial legislature set the boundaries of Eddy County, in 1889, Seven Rivers was named the county seat.

When the decision was taken to separate the judiciary and legislature, in 2007, by transforming the House of Lords Judicial Committee of Law Lords into the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom it was given the Middlesex Guildhall in Parliament Square as its residence.

When the Missouri legislature created Carter County on March 10, 1859, it named the county after Zimri A. Carter.

When Arkansas achieved statehood the same year Texas declared itself an independent republic in 1836 a dispute over the common border arose, with the area in Miller County having representation in both the Arkansas legislature and the Texas congress.

When the Milwaukee Normal School persisted with its popular enhanced curriculum, the regents of the Normal School system, the legislature, and the governor all became involved.

When the state legislature created Mendocino County in 1859, Ukiah was chosen as the county seat.

When Winn Parish was officially formed by the state legislature in 1852, Winnfield was established as the parish seat.

When the railroad built a stop at La Plata, it began to lobby the legislature to move the county seat there, which was accomplished in 1895.

When Nobles County was formally created by the Minnesota legislature on May 23, 1857, Gretchtown was brielfy designated as the county seat of Nobles County, a county at that time without any residents.

When Goodspeed published its History of Tennessee in 1887, the Union County section included a brief biography of Roy's grandfather, Coram Acuff ( 1846 – 1931 ), who represented Union County in the state legislature.

When the time came to present arguments to the state legislature regarding which town should be the county seat, someone apparently intentionally intoxicated the representative of a rival community, and Ephrata was chosen.

When Social Credit lost a motion of no confidence in the legislature in March 1953, Winch argued that the CCF should be allowed to try to form a government instead of the house being dissolved for an early election.

When living in Sonoma, he stood for election to represent the region in the California legislature but was defeated by James Bennett of Santa Rosa.

When a body is acted upon by external contact forces, internal contact forces are then transmitted from point to point inside the body to balance their action, according to Newton's second law of motion of conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum ( for continuous bodies these laws are called the Euler's equations of motion ).

When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint Cyril I of Alexandria acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nestorius repent.

When a body ( body 1 ) is acted on by the gravity of another body ( body 2 ), the field can vary significantly on body 1 between the side of the body facing body 2 and the side facing away from body 2.

When two noun phrases follow a transitive verb, the first is an indirect object, that which is receiving something, and the second is a direct object, that being acted upon.

When Italian authorities expropriated convents and monasteries of Catholic orders, turning them into administration or military buildings, Cardinal Pecci protested but acted moderately.

When taniwha were accorded the appropriate respect, they usually acted well towards their people.

When realization of paternity occurred, according to the hypothesis, men acted to claim a power to monopolize women and claim their offspring as possessions and patriarchy began.

When Thersander died on Mysia in the Trojan War, Peneleos acted as regent for Tisamenus until he came of age.

When the double slit experiment was performed, light acted in some cases as a wave, and some cases as a particle.

When Saladin accused Raynald of being an oath-breaker, Raynald replied that " kings have always acted thus ".

When news of this reached the UK Cabinet, many Ministers thought that Parkes ' action had been both legally and morally wrong, and the Attorney-General had no doubt that Parkes had acted in breach of international law.

When the finished image was viewed by transmitted light, each bit of the silver image acted as a valve, allowing more or less light to pass through the corresponding colored starch grain, recreating the original proportions of the three colors.

When the rebellion broke out, Lovat acted with characteristic duplicity.

When Saladin accused Raynald of being an oath breaker, Raynald replied " kings have always acted thus.

When the war between Hungary and Venice was declared, Charles acted as ambassador in 1379, negotiating in the conflict.

When Napoléon returned from Elba, Soult at once declared himself a Bonapartist, was made a peer of France and acted as major-general ( chief of staff ) to the Emperor in the campaign of Waterloo, in which role he distinguished himself far less than he had done as commander of an over-matched army.

When Constantine made his renunciation public, and Nicholas stepped forward to assume the throne, the Northern Society acted.

When the bishop acted on the information, he was able to take over the murderer's lands and add them to his bishopric.

When the invitation to the Québec Conference arrived in 1864, Shea acted as one of two delegates, along with F. B. T. Carter.

When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners ; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another.

When he did appear as himself, he still acted out some shtick routine.

When Richard Hunt joined the Muppets, he was only 18, so Nelson acted as a mentor to him.

When Blaney and his supporters tried to organise the party's national collection independently Lynch acted and in 1972 Blaney was expelled from the Fianna Fáil party for ' conduct unbecoming '.

When the Duc D ' Orléans became regent ( 1715 ) Dubois, who had for some years acted as his secretary, was made councillor of state, and the chief power passed gradually into his hands.