The head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005.

* Jakaya Kikwete, the current President of Tanzania, has often been referred to as " Dr. Kikwete " for his honorary degree received from the University of St. Thomas ( Minnesota ) in 2006.

* Led by President Jakaya Kikwete, in office since 21 December 2005

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete ( born October 7, 1950 ) is a Tanzanian politician who has been the 4th President of Tanzania since December 2005.

* Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania

His replacement, Abass Kandoro, was appointed that month by President Jakaya Kikwete.

They include President George W. Bush's visit in February 2008 ( the first ever official visit by a sitting U. S. president and the longest visit by a U. S. president in a single African nation ), Tanzania ’ s hosting of Sullivan Summit VIII ( the first Sullivan Summit in East Africa ), President Kikwete ’ s White House visit in August 2008, and the signing of the largest Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ) Compact in history.

Introducing candidate Kikwete at a campaign rally in Dar es Salaam on 21 August 2005, President Mkapa described him as a super-diplomat, in recognition of his role in the search for peace in neighboring Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The only " relevant " post that is not directly appointed by the President is the Vice-President, which is the second in the winning party.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus () is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and it is appointed by the President of Belarus.

A caretaker cabinet was appointed by the President again and served until the new pre-term parliamentary elections in April 1997.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years while also disabling immediate re-election.

For example, the chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank is appointed by the President of the U. S. ( all nominees for this post are recommended by the owners of the Federal Reserve, as are all the board members ), his choice must be confirmed by the Congress, and he must appear and testify before congress twice a year.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

In 1888, President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Assay Commission.

When Chiang became President of China after the Northern Expedition, he carved out Ningxia and Qinghai out of Gansu province, and appointed Muslim Generals as Military Governors of all three provinces: Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Qi.

In 1926, he was appointed President of the Central Institute of Statistics in Rome.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

Both the Secretary of State and ambassadors are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Murto departed Compaq in 1987, while Canion ( President and CEO ) and Harris ( SVP of Engineering ) left under a shakeup in 1991 that saw Eckhard Pfeiffer appointed President and CEO.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

The executive at the central level, is divided between the President, and a Prime Minister appointed by him / her from the party having the majority of seats in Parliament.

Vice President Annette Lu was appointed acting DPP leader.

Out of the assembly ’ s 454 deputies, 444 are directly elected while no more than 10 may be appointed by the President ( article 87 of the Constitution ).

In the Shura Council 176 members are directly elected and 88 members are appointed by the President of the Republic for six-year terms.

The Prime Minister is appointed by the President and operates under powers designated by the President.

His first attempt ended in failure when the Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who remembered Papen well with considerable distaste from World War I, refused to accept him as Ambassador, complaining in private the nomination of Papen must have been meant as some sort of German sick joke.

On July 10, 1978, Col. Mustafa Ould Salek led a bloodless coup d ' état that ousted the President, who would later go into exile in France.

* May 19 – Official birthday of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of Turkey ( d. 1938 )

Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, WJC Vice-President Rabbi Marc Schneier, and British Imam Abdujalil Sajid in Brussels, December 2010The World Jewish Congress considers dialogue with representatives of moderate Islam as “ one of the most important and challenging issues at this time.

Following his resignation, Naguib was then isolated by President Nasser in a Cairo's suburb villa owned by Zienab Al-Wakil, wife of Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha, ex-Prime Minister of Egypt.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, used the palace as a presidential residence during the summers and enacted some of his most important works here.

The stadium is named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey.

Noteworthy people who had the surgery included Harold McCormick, chairman of the board of International Harvester Company, and the aging President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Amānullāh Khān with first Turkish President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Ankara, ( 1928 ).

* Mustafa İsmet İnönü, ( 1884 – 1973 ), Turkish Army General, Prime Minister, President

Anıtkabir ( literally, " memorial tomb ") is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey.

After the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the State orchestra moved to the new capital Ankara on April 27, 1924 upon the orders of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Founding President of the Republic of Turkey.

In 1969, al-Bitar, President Amin al-Hafiz, Nasim Al Safarjalani, Khaled Al Hakim and others were sentenced to death in absentia by a special military court headed by later Syrian Defence Minister, Mustafa Tlass, and Interim Syrian President and Vice President of Syria Abdul Halim Khaddam.

Col. Mustafa Ould Salek (; born 1936 ) was the President of Mauritania from 1978 through 1979.

Mustafa Ould Salek was appointed army commander by longtime President Mokhtar Ould Daddah in February 1978, as the country faced dire economic crisis and was failing to contain the Polisario Front's Sahrawi guerrillas after invading Western Sahara in 1975 in alliance with Morocco.

President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leaves the Turkish Parliament in Ankara after a meeting.