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4 unusual facts about Executive Council


Interim Government of India

The Viceroy's Executive Council became the executive branch of the interim government.

Peter John Cashin

He served as minister of finance from 1928 to 1932 when he resigned from the government and accused Sir Richard Squires, the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, of falsifying the minutes of Executive Council meetings to cover up certain legal fees he had been paying himself out of public funds.

Royal instructions

tell him how the Executive Council and legislative council were to be constituted, how their procedure was to be regulated, and how he was to work with them

Senate of Bermuda

In 1888, the Privy Council was split into an Executive Council, which later became the Cabinet, and a Legislative Council, which became the upper house of Parliament, akin to the House of Lords, in the United Kingdom, although its members were appointed, rather than being hereditary peers.


Angus Macdonell

When Henry Allcock's election was contested, he ran in an 1801 by-election in Durham, Simcoe & 1st York and won, defeating John Small, clerk of the Executive Council.

District Court of South Australia

Judges of the District Court are appointed by the Governor of South Australia on the advice of the Executive Council.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

The flag is flown at places the Governor-General occupies or resides such as Governor-General's residence, Parliament of New Zealand while attending Executive Council meetings and on official vehicles.

Jacques Baby

His son James later became a judge and a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Upper Canada.

Thomas Waddell

When See resigned in June 1904, he recommended to Governor Sir Harry Rawson that he appoint Paddy Crick, but Rawson did not favour Crick because of his excessive drinking in Executive Council meetings and in due course asked Waddell to be premier.


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Archibald Burt

He often gave advice to the Governor and Executive Council that was at odds with that of the Attorney General, George Frederick Stone.

Barton Government

Barton appointed two other honorary Cabinet positions: Richard O'Connor of New South Wales, to serve as Vice-President of the Executive Council, and Elliott Lewis, the Premier of Tasmania.

Capitol of Puerto Rico

The evaluation of the proposals was in charge of William F. Willoughby (president of the Executive Council), José de Diego (Speaker of the House, represented by Luis Muñoz Rivera), José S. Quiñones (President of the Supreme Court), and Laurence Grahame.

Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

The unique partnership began in October 2002 when the Veterans Health Administration and the DoD signed an Executive Council Decision Memo, directing the partnership between the two medical centers.

Charles V. Willie

Willie is a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United State, a former member of its Executive Council and is a past vice president of the House of Deputies, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Chow Kon Yeow

Chow is also a member of the Executive Council of the state of Penang as Chairman of the Local Government Committee, and represents the seat of Padang Kota in the Penang State Assembly.

Clifford Phelps Morehouse

In 1932, Morehouse succeeded Frederic Cook Morehouse as editor of The Living Church He was a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, and served as President of the House of Deputies of General Convention from 1961 to 1967.

Daniel R. Levinson

In the wider government accountability community, Levinson serves on the Executive Council of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, where he chairs the Committee on Inspection and Evaluation.

Demet Çetindoğan

She is currently the President of the High Advisory Board of TIKAD (Turkish Businesswomem Association), President of Executive Council of YÇD (Creative Children’s Association), Member of World Academy of Art and Science, Founding member of Social Aid and Solidarity Foundation, Member of Chaine des Rotisseurs Association Mondiale de la Gastronomie, Honorary Chairperson of Swiss Red Cross Ball 2013, and a member of Venetian Heritage Foundation.

East-Central Europe

The first president of the Committee was Jerzy Kłoczowski, long-time member of the UNESCO Executive Council and president of the Institute of East-Central Europe in Lublin.

Edward Whelan

This led to Whelan’s rise in stature and in April 1851, Whelan was named to the Executive Council and also appointed the Queen's Printer.

Executive Council of New Zealand

The Executive Council's primary function is to issue Orders in Council, which operate under the authority of the Governor-General in Council.

Fadden Ministry

Senator Hon George McLeay: Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Supply and Development (UAP)

Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed

Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed is a founding member of the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party and has served as a member of its Executive Council.

Federal Diet

The Tagsatzung, the legislative and executive council of the Swiss confederacy

Frances Swiney

She soon became involved in political activity, first through the Primrose League (becoming a member of its executive council, although she later left the League) and writing pamphlets on Irish Home Rule of a generally Unionist character.

Gair Ministry

On 17 January 1952, the Governor, Sir John Lavarack, designated 11 principal executive offices of the Government, appointed former minister Ted Walsh to the Executive Council to fill the vacancy left by Hanlon's death, and appointed the following Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland to the Ministry as follows.

Gilbert Barling

Sir Gilbert chaired his last meeting of the Civic Society’s Executive Council on 19 March 1940 and he died from heart failure at his home (whilst in his garden) at 6 Manor Road, Edgbaston on Saturday 27 April 1940, just three days before his 85th birthday.

Gloria Guardia

She is the founder of the Panamanian chapter of the PEN-International and served as one of the seven executive council members of PEN from 1997 to 2002.

Hanlon Ministry

On 10 May 1950, following the state election, the Governor, Sir John Lavarack, designated 10 principal executive offices of the Government, appointed Paul Hilton to the Executive Council to fill the vacancy left by Bruce's loss of his parliamentary seat, and appointed the following Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland to the Ministry as follows.

Hoh Khai Mun

Datuk Hoh Khai Mun is the state executive council of Pahang who is in charge with local council, health, and the environment.

Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland

The 5 Hoogheemraden that form with the Dijkgraaf the Dagelijks Bestuur (Executive Council) thus stem from those 5 groups.

Hugh Johnston, Jr.

Johnston resigned from the Executive Council in 1845 after William MacBean George Colebrooke named his son-in-law provincial secretary.

Indian Red Cross Society

A bill to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society, Independent of the British Red Cross, was introduced in the Indian Legislative Council on March 3, 1920 by Sir Claude Hill, member of the Viceroy's Executive Council who was also Chairman of the Joint War Committee in India .

Irish National War Memorial Gardens

W.T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free State Executive Council then appointed Cecil Lavery to set up a "War Memorial Committee" to advance the memorial process.

Jadranko Prlić

In 1988, he became a mayor of Mostar and in 1989 he became the Vice-President of the state Executive Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jerry Horan

Horan arranged for Taylor to meet with Oscar Nelson, George Scalise, Harry Bates (president of the Bricklayers union), and AFL President William Green after a meeting of the AFL executive council in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in August 1937.

John A. Robinson

He was a member of the Executive Council serving as colonial secretary from 1898 to 1900, as Minister of Posts and Telegraphs from 1916 to 1919 and as a minister without portfolio in 1924 and 1928.

Jusuf Zejnullahu

On 3 April 1990 he and a number of other ethnic Albanian members of the Provincial Executive Council, including one of the two vice-premiers, offered their resignations, in protest at Slobodan Milošević’s measures in the region, and the handling of the separatist unrest by the local Communist Party of Kosovo.

Karen people

When a delegation of representatives of the Governor's Executive Council headed by Aung San was invited to London to negotiate for the Aung San-Attlee Treaty in January 1947, none of the ethnic minority groups were included by the British government.

Mahendra P. Lama

Recently, the President of India has nominated Prof Mahendra P. Lama to the prestigious Executive Council of North Eastern Hill University in Shillong.

Matthew Henry Davies

Davies represented the electoral district of St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1888; was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land in 1885; was sworn of the Executive Council in Feb. 1886, and held a portfolio in the Gillies-Deakin Government as a Minister without responsible office from that date till Oct 1887.

Mohd Jidin Shafee

Before his election to Parliament, Mohd Jidin was a member of the State Assembly of Terengganu for the seat of Permaisuri and a member of the State Executive Council as Chairman of the State Agriculture and Regional Development Committee.

Mohd Nasir Ibrahim Fikri

Mohd Nasir has also been a member of the State Assembly of Terengganu and was a member of the state's Executive Council.

Phahrolrazi Zawawi

Datuk Haji Phahrolrazi bin Haji Zawawi is a member of the Executive Council of the Malaysian state of Kedah, chairing the Committee for Rural Development, Entrepreneur and Public Works.

Pi Sigma Alpha

A local chapter may be established at any college or university granting the baccalaureate or higher degrees, which is accredited by a regional or national accrediting association, and which offers a major sequence of courses in political science through an appropriate administrative department, school, or division of the institution, and which conforms to other requirements established by the Executive Council of the society.

Roger Masters

He was a founding member and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and leads an ongoing consultancy on biology and politics for the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with anthropologist Lionel Tiger and neuroscientist Michael T. McGuire.

Sara Ruiz Chávez

In 2007 she ran for General Secretary of the National Executive Council (2nd most important ranking position within the PRI) but lost (she and Enrique Jackson) against Beatriz Paredes.

Sergei O. Prokofieff

After the fall of communism, he became a co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia, and since Easter 2001 he has been a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland.

Sewell Ministry, 1856

Robert Wynyard, the administrator filling in after Grey's departure and before the arrival of the next Governor, Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, formed an Executive Council led by James FitzGerald (the Fitzgerald Ministry).

Swiss Nationalist Party

In 2005, another member was elected to the municipal executive council of Günsberg, canton of Solothurn (population 1,100).

Tam David-West

David-West served in Nigerian government as commissioner for education and a member of the Executive Council of Rivers State (1975–1979), as a member of the fifty-person Constitution Drafting Committee for the Federal Military Government of General Murtala Muhammed (1979), as federal minister of petroleum and energy under General Muhammadu Buhari (1984–1985), and as minister of mines, power, and steel under General Ibrahim Babangida (1986), eventually being purged and arrested.

Tor Levin Hofgaard

He is vice-president of International Union of Psychological Science and an Executive Council member in the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations.

William Alexander Harvey

From 1918 he also sat on the Executive Council of The Birmingham Civic Society.

Yang Ti-liang

After retiring from Executive Council, he spent much of his time teaching English grammar and etiquette.

Yankari National Park

In 1934, the Northern Regional Committee made a recommendation to the Executive Council to establish a pilot game reserve in the Bauchi Emirate.