After placing Warren Harding's name in nomination at the 1920 Republican National Convention, Willis was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1920, replacing Harding, who then resigned his seat to take the presidency, allowing Willis to take his seat early.

Farmer resigned in 1942, Willis also became Minister of Labour, holding this position until 1944.

Under pressure from his party and disturbed by the Campbell government's inaction on various issues, Willis resigned from cabinet on August 19, 1950.

Under pressure from the MDM, as well as from George Drew and Dufferin Roblin, Willis resigned from the coalition ministry in mid-1950.

In 1870, Willis resigned to become head of the hospital and medical school in Kagoshima at the invitation of Saigo Takamori.

When Keating resigned as Treasurer in 1991, Willis was again passed over when Hawke gave the Treasury to John Kerin.

Willis got a second chance when Dawkins, frustrated by Cabinet's rejection of his economic views, resigned suddenly in December 1993.

Continuing as Leader of the Opposition, Willis resigned in 1977 and retired from politics a year later.

When former Minister Steve Mauger resigned on 27 January 1976, sparking a by-election in his seat of Monaro in May, and early polls had indicated a large swing to Labor, Willis announced an early election on 1 May, thereby cancelling the by-election in the hope of preventing a larger move of voters against the government.

On 15 December 1977, Willis called a press conference to announce his intention to resign as leader: On 16 December, he formally resigned as leader at the party meeting and was replaced by Peter Coleman.

Willis resigned as Member for Earlwood on 16 June 1978, at the age of 56.

Willis resigned his office on December 21, 1959, and Roblin then appointed Thompson to move from Labour and pick up the Public Works portfolio.

Under pressure from the MDM and others, Willis resigned from the coalition ministry in mid-1950.

During the 1940s, the Manitoba Conservatives were part of a coalition government with the Liberal-Progressives, and Conservative leader Errick Willis was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.

Willis himself was given a prominent cabinet position in the all-party ministry which followed.

The Conservatives had been led since 1936 by Errick Willis, a figure from the party's rural base who was a prominent cabinet minister in the coalition years.

Willis had been a prominent cabinet minister in the coalition government, and many questioned the sincerity of his new-found opposition to Campbell's ministry.

The son of U. S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was active as an ordained minister with that denomination for many years, but holds to a charismatic theology not traditionally common among Southern Baptists.

The older of the two, Broaddus College, was founded in Winchester, Virginia, in 1871 by Edward Jefferson Willis, a Baptist minister who named the new college after Rev.

Cox was research assistant to Mick Young ( a minister in the Hawke government ), an advisor to ministers in the South Australian Labor government 1983-86 and 1992 – 93, and to federal Labor ministers Peter Walsh, Gordon Bilney, John Kerin and Ralph Willis 1986-92.

Alexander Reid, a minister at the Old Spencer Academy, Choctaw boarding school, heard Willis singing these two songs and transcribed the words and melodies.

Willis was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for long service to the Commonwealth Parliament, including as a minister and as Treasurer.

Its most prominent members have been Ralph Willis, a Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and Nicola Roxon, a Cabinet minister in the Rudd Government and the first and second Gillard Governments.

Willis was regarded as the outstanding minister of the Askin Government and is considered one of the state's greatest Education Ministers.

# Life is No Picnic-Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, who were defended by Lord Byron, who meets John Galt in Turkey, avoiding the same blockade that inspires the " Star-Spangled Banner ," which was really an English song all about a Greek poet discovered by a publisher whose son-in-law is pals with Joseph Justus Scaliger of chronology fame, whose military boss, Maurice, inspires Gustavus of Sweden, father of the runaway Christina, whose teacher René Descartes ' mechanical universe inspires the book about brains by Willis, which is illustrated by the architect of St. Paul's, Christopher Wren, who's dabbles in investments like John Law's Louisiana scam that ruins France, and Pierre Beaumarchais, and later the French finance minister Jacques Necker, whose daughter is the opinionated de Stael, whose romantic pals get Thomas Henry Huxley looking into jellyfish so he can defend Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Mbarara has a number of streets which include Mbarara High Street ( named after one of the town's most prominent secondary schools, Mbaguta Street ( named after a former prime minister of Ankole ), Bishop Willis Street ( named after Bishop Willis, one of the first whites to visit Ankole and Mbarara ), Garage Street, Markhan Singh Street, Bulemba Road and Bucuku Street.

" Pat " Robertson, son of Virginia United States Senator A. Willis Robertson and an attorney-turned-Southern Baptist minister, purchased the dormant channel 27 license.

On August 13, 2012, United Airlines announced it will be moving its corporate headquarters from 77 West Wacker Drive to the Willis Tower.

* August 25 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral ( b. 1888 )

) J. Archie Willis, who featured Cornelia in an article in the Atlanta Journal ( August 4, 1918 ), stated that " Cornelia hospitality is the result of its having been built.

The album, which features a guest appearance by Bruce Willis, released in August 2008.

* August 30, 2003 – Top fashion designer Stella McCartney, third daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney marries publisher Alasdhair Willis in a private Roman Catholic chapel at Mount Stuart House, the stately home of the Marquess of Bute.

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In August 1998 Kimball left the group and was replaced by Chicago-based drummer Brendan Murphy, formerly of the Wesley Willis Fiasco.

Victor Gazaway Willis ( April 12, 1876 – August 3, 1947 ) was a Major League Baseball player nicknamed " The Delaware Peach.

Charles Willis " Chip " Pickering, Jr. ( born August 10, 1963 ) is a politician in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

Roxie Albertha Roker ( August 28, 1929 – December 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, best known for her groundbreaking role as Helen Willis on the sitcom The Jeffersons, half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television.

McCartney married British publisher Alasdhair Willis on 30 August 2003 at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.

" He lost 6-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers and left-hander Mike Caldwell on July 7, lost 2-1 to the Baltimore Orioles and left-hander Mike Flanagan on August 4, and lost 8-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays and left-hander Mike Willis on September 20.

He was wounded in a skirmish at Willis ' Grist Mill at South Utoy Creek on 10 August 1864, near the Sandtown Road ( now Cascade Road SW, near Willis Mill Road and what is now Adams Park in Atlanta ), then treated at Utoy Church, which was serving as a field hospital for said battle, and finally recuperated in Barnesville, Georgia, until rejoining the army in October 1864 at the time of the Confederate invasion of Tennessee.

* " George Willis Pack: A Name That Will Endure ", A Virtual Exhibit, University of North Carolina at Asheville, August 2006

The Memorial Project came about following the shooting of Constable Willis Edward Rhodeniser on the White Bear Reserve near Carlyle, Saskatchewan on August 26, 1939.

On 30 August 2003 fashion designer Stella McCartney married publisher Alasdhair Willis at the house.

In August, Hunter-Weston made a second recommendation for three of the men ; under the original 1856 warrant establishing the award up to 4 VCs could be awarded as a result of balloting the units involved ; and Keneally, Richards and Willis, were awarded the medal having been selected by the surviving privates, NCOs and officers respectively.

That year, Willis founded the American Monthly Magazine, which began publishing in April 1829 until it was discontinued in August 1831.

In August 1853, future President James A. Garfield discussed Willis's declining popularity in his diary: " Willis is said to be a licentious man, although an unrivaled poet.

The Southern Literary Messenger first appeared in August 1834 with Thomas Willis White as publisher.

Pakistan toured in early August, and Willis featured in one Test.

The 1977 Ashes took place across five Tests between June and August that year, in all of which Willis featured.