At the 1922 general election, Attlee became the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney.

In 1997 General Krulak became a Life Member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California.

Mountbatten became a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers ( IEE ), now the Institution of Engineering and Technology ( IET ), which annually awards the Mountbatten Medal for an outstanding contribution, or contributions over a period, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

Roosevelt became a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, while President, in 1907 after paying a $ 25 fee.

Gladstone's eldest son William ( known as " Willy " to distinguish him from his father ) became a Member of Parliament but pre-deceased his father, dying in the early 1890s.

But the upheaval was worthwhile because, in November 1879, Grace finally received his diploma from the University of Edinburgh, having qualified as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians ( LRCP ) and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ).

Member of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze: March – April 1967 ( Became Secretary of State in April 1967 ) Reelected in 1968, 1973, but he stays minister / 1976 – 1986 ( Became Prime minister in 1986 ) / 1988 – 1995 ( Resignation, became President of the French Republic in 1995 ).

Chris Smith became the first Member of Parliament to complete the Munros when he reached the summit of Sgùrr nan Coireachan on 27 May 1989.

Lord Robert, as he was styled as a duke's son, became an important local gentleman and a Member of Parliament.

Bildt became a Member of Parliament in 1979, although he instead served as State Secretary for Policy Coordination in the non-socialist government reformed after that election.

In May 2011, UEA officially became an Associate Member of the International Information Centre for Terminology ( Infoterm ).

In 1416, he became a Member of Parliament, and was also in turn influential with Henry IV's son, Henry V, also lending him large amounts of money and serving on several Royal Commissions of oyer and terminer.

He became a Member of the Reichstag for South Westphalia from 1928 to 1933 and served as KPD chairman in Berlin from 1929.

In 1545 he became a Member of Parliament, representing Dartmouth.

1540 – 1624 ), was a Member of Parliament for the county of Suffolk His title of Baronette became extinct when the last son to hold the title didn't produce a son English baronetcy.

He was awarded the Grand Prix Scientifique de la Ville de Paris in 1974, and became a Member of the Academie des Sciences of Paris in 1976.

He was a long-time Member of Parliament ( MP ), representing Ebbw Vale for 31 years, and became recognised as one of the leaders of the party ’ s left wing, and of left-wing British thought generally.

After early defeats as a candidate for the constituency of East Dunbartonshire, he became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Penrith and the Border at the 1955 general election, and represented that constituency for 28 years.

Diane Julie Abbott ( born 27 September 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons.

He was the Standing Member of the Central Committee's Secretariat of the Party from 1982 to 1986 and later became the Advisor of Party's Central Committee.

It was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from 1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742.

On leaving university he became a researcher to the former Conservative Member of the European Parliament, Sir John Stewart-Clark, and then in 1981 became a merchant banker.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.

Acting quickly before all parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and the Governor-General dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta, which explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became English writ of habeas corpus, safeguarding individual freedom against unlawful imprisonment with right to appeal.

The franchise was slowly increased and Parliament gradually gained more power until the monarch became largely a figurehead.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

It was also a political group in the European Parliament, until 1992, when it became a subgroup of European People's Party-European Democrats ( EPP-ED ).

Later in the year, following Elizabeth's illness with smallpox, the succession question became a heated issue in Parliament.

Cromwell had not intended it, but not too long after establishing the Commonwealth, he dismissed the Parliament, and in effect, became a military dictator.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

During his three-year reign, King James II became directly involved in the political battles in England between Catholicism and Protestantism, on the one hand, and on the other, between the Divine Right of Kings and the political rights of the Parliament of England.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Some historians think that Thomas Cromwell affected a " Tudor Revolution " in government, and it is certain that Parliament became more important during his chancellorship.

When the living and working conditions of the laborers became known public opposition to the scheme grew and questions were asked in the British Parliament.

In the 2009 elections however, PASOK became the majority party in the Parliament and George Papandreou became Prime Minister of Greece.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

In October the government became embroiled in another embarrassing controversy over the alleged misuse of VIP aircraft, which came to a head when John Gorton ( Government Leader in the Senate ) tabled documents which showed that Holt had unintentionally misled Parliament in his earlier answers on the matter.

However, during the reign of James I and thereafter, impeachments became more popular, as they did not require the assent of the Crown, while bills of attainder did, thus allowing Parliament to resist royal attempts to dominate Parliament.

In the 1970s it became a fully-fledged political party, and since then it has fielded candidates in elections to Westminster and the European Parliament, as well as local government in Cornwall.