The Larkhall Line was opened as an extension to Argyle Line services in December 2005 by First Minister Jack McConnell.
This defined a Governor General, representative of the Queen of Tanganyika, Elizabeth II, to be the formal head of state, while the executive was led by the First Minister or the Prime Minister, chosen from the majority party.
Following the first Scottish Parliament elections, Whitton became Special Adviser to the First Minister of Scotland, Donald Dewar and Official Spokesman for the First Minister and the Scottish Executive.
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One of the most prominent critics was the then Cardiff West MP, Rhodri Morgan (Labour), who was later to become First Minister of the Welsh Assembly.
She has hosted a series on BBC Alba, Cuide ri Cathy starting on Monday 22 September 2008, where she spends a day with some of Scotland's top celebrities including the First Minister Alex Salmond, TV presenter Aggie MacKenzie and Gail Porter, Pro Golfer Colin Montgomery, and writer Irvine Welsh.
On the morning after the election, Angiolini had cleared her office and was preparing to leave when she received a phone call from Alex Salmond, the new First Minister.
He was hailed as a "national hero" upon his return by Scotland's First Minister, Jack McConnell.
In December 2006 he criticised the decision to renew Trident, Britain's nuclear deterrent, in opposition to First Minister Jack McConnell, leading to speculation that he might be removed from office.
In June 2009, Adam Busby Jr., the son of the SNLA founder, was jailed for 6 years for sending a total of 6 packages to various political figures, including First Minister Alex Salmond, Liberal Democrats MSP Mike Rumbles and Glasgow City Council.
In addition, two foreign observers were appointed to the Commission, former First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, and former head of the Canadian military's judiciary, Judge Advocate General, Ken Watkin, authorized to take part in hearings and discussions, but not to vote on final conclusions.
The new St. Mirren Park was officially opened on 31 January 2009 by club chairman Stewart Gilmour and First Minister Alex Salmond, prior to the first match at the new ground.
Several politicians, including Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, have also urged the public to make sure their children are vaccinated.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, the Queen, Sir Chris Hoy, Fred Perry's daughter, Penny, television presenters Ant and Dec, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, WTA players Laura Robson and Victoria Azarenka, and Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, were also among those who paid tribute.
Adams Streeter (December 31, 1735 – September 2, 1786) was the first minister of the Universalist congregations in Oxford and Milford, Massachusetts.
During his tenure as the first Minister for Communications and Information Technology he was credited with establishing Egypt's free internet connectivity plan as well as improving public access to computers through low-price computers sold by private producers through the Egyptian Telecommunications Company (Telecom Egypt), which falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Communications and Information Technology.
In June 2012, Jenkins became embroiled in a row about her comments on social networking site Twitter, in light of the meeting between Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Queen Elizabeth II at a charity reception.
The same chapter also appointed Richard of Ingworth as first minister provincial who appears to have taken up residence in Youghal.
Kirchner's wife and successor, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had the Tourism Secretariat elevated to a cabinet-level post, and on July 1, 2010, Meyer was sworn in as the first Minister of Tourism.
Reflecting the growing interest in the potential of creative industries in developing countries, in October 2011 a Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy was created within the Indonesian government with well-known economist Dr Mari Pangestu appointed as the first minister to hold the position.
During the 1st Trần Văn Hữu cabinet (May 6, 1950 – Feb 21st 1951) Đinh Xuân Quảng became the first Minister of Public Service of the State of Vietnam.
Reverend Eleazer Wales was the first minister of the Kingston Presbyterian Church, in Kingston, New Jersey.
Martin McGuinness used the term Joint First Minister himself when he arrived for a meeting of the North/South Ministerial Council in February 2009; the DUP denounced the term as "republican speak" and it is not used in legislation.
His elder brother Ferdinand Leopold was also at various times canon of several cathedral chapters, first minister of Cologne, and ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.
They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.
In 2010, he won a contest to predict the winners of Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster constituencies, missing out on just one, Naomi Long, who surprisingly beat First Minister Peter Robinson in East Belfast.
Ísak Guttormsson, First Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1583 to 1588
Henry Whitfield, one of Guilford's founders and first minister, is estimated to have been born sometime between June 8 and October 1, 1592 in Greenwich in the English county of Kent.
It was commissioned in 1343 and compiled under the direction of First Minister Toktoghan and Prime Minister Alutu (阿鲁图/阿魯圖) during the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368) at the same time as the History of Liao and the History of Jin.
Martin McGuinness (James Martin Pacelli McGuinness, born 1950), Irish Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
Rev. John Maverick (1578-1636) was the first minister of the First Parish Church of Dorchester in early colonial Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Josip Boljkovac (born November 12, 1920 in Vukova Gorica, near Karlovac) is a former Croatian politician, and was the first Minister of Internal Affairs in the Government of Croatia.
She was appointed the first Minister of State for Environment Affairs on 23 April 2009, the day after Earth Day.
During his time as first minister Mathews continued to be involved with the military and was part of two large campaigns, one to Witu and another to Mwele.
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Liberal Democrat life peer
Senior negotiators from Northern Ireland (NI), including Martin McGuinness from Sinn Féin, currently Deputy First Minister of NI, Jeffrey Donaldson from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Durie, after landing at Bordeaux, went to Holland, where he was admitted first minister of the Scottish church at Leyden, where he died in September 1616.
Following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 Mallon became Deputy First Minister in the Assembly, serving alongside Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble.
Almost the whole of Macedonia was incorporated in Bulgaria in the mid 9th century during the rule of Khan Presian and his first minister Isbul.
The foundation stone was laid by Field Marshal Lord Allenby on 7 May 1927 and the church was opened in 1930 with Ninian Hill as its first minister.
In March 1867, the Rev. Alexander Farquharson Jr., son of a pioneer Minister at Grand River was inducted as the first minister of the newly formed (December 1866) congregation in Glace Bay.
Its first minister was J. Johnson who was ordained at Spa Fields Chapel London by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
In 1750, Adonijah Bidwell, a Yale Divinity School graduate from the Hartford region, became the first minister of Township No. 1.
On 27 October 2007 the then First Minister Rhodri Morgan and the Deputy First Minster Ieuan Wyn Jones appointed Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the recently retired Permanent Representatives from Britain to the United Nations to head the convention.