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32 unusual facts about Governor


Brush-tailed rock-wallaby

As part of the acclimatisation movement of the late 1800s, governor Grey introduced this and four other species of wallabies (including the rare parma wallaby) to islands in Hauraki Gulf, near Auckland, New Zealand, where they became well-established.

Campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand

The foundation stones of the building (one in English and the other in Dutch) were laid by Prince Arthur of Connaught, then the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and also the University's first chancellor.

Chief Justice of the Bahamas

Under Article 94(1), the Governor-General appoints the Chief Justice on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition.

Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly

He and his wife met in 1937 when he was an aide-de-camp to Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General of Australia, an appointment Ranfurly held from 1936 to 1938.

Eleuthera

Airports with regularly scheduled flights are available at North Eleuthera, Governor's Harbour and Rock Sound.

Far Eastern Games

It was at that time that Governor-General William Cameron Forbes was the president of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Association from 1911-1913.

Georgia Bulldogs football under Ernest Brown

Winship played tackle that year only, but went on to become a military lawyer, a veteran of both the Spanish-American war and World War I, the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army and the Governor of Puerto Rico.

Governor

In Malaysia, each of four non-monarchical states (Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak) has a ceremonial Governor styled Yang di-Pertua Negeri, appointed to renewable four-year terms by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the federal King of Malaysia on the advice of the Prime Minister after consulting the state governments.

Governor-General of the Irish Free State

The last governor-general resided in a specially leased private residence in Booterstown, County Dublin.

Governor-General of the Union of South Africa

Some of the first holders of the post were members of the British Royal Family including Prince Arthur of Connaught, between 1920 and 1924, and the Earl of Athlone, who served between 1924 and 1931, before becoming the Governor General of Canada.

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Governor's Comedy Club

It has two sister clubs also on Long Island: The Brokerage Comedy Club & Vaudeville Cafe (opened in 1980) in Bellmore, and McGuire's in Bohemia.

Governor's Program for Gifted Children

The Governor's Program for Gifted Children (GPGC) is a gifted education residential summer program at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Governor's School of Engineering and Technology

Since its inception, the program has been held at Rutgers University in Piscataway, in Middlesex County, New Jersey and aims to educate scholars in the fields of engineering and technology.

Governor's School of North Carolina

The first session was funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and an association of business leaders from Winston-Salem, NC.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

Jacques' brother, Andre was serving his first term as Governor of Louisiana, and his sister Josephine, was married to Francois Gabriel "Valcour" Aime, whose wealth, interest in the sugar industry and opulent life style had won him the title of "Sugar King Of Louisiana".

John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington

In 1910 Dickson was appointed Governor of New Zealand, a post he held for two years, and on 27 April that same year, was created Baron Islington, of Islington in the County of London.

John Pittenger

Pittenger established the state government internship program for in-state college students and the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.

José Luis Moneró

His prominence led Governor Luis Fortuño to order flags flown at half staff for three days when informed of the musician's death.

Joseph W. Matthews

Joseph Warren Matthews (1812–1862) was an American politician who served as Governor of Mississippi from 1848 to 1850.

Joshua Fisher

Fisher was ordered not to publish the map by the Governor, Robert Hunter Morris, because a war appeared likely with France and he was concerned that the map might fall into enemy hands.

Julian A. Pitt-Rivers

His father was the anthropologist and propertied aristocrat George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and his mother, Emily Rachel Forster, was an actress and daughter of the governor-general of Australia, the 1st Baron Forster.

Liam Tobin

Tobin was placed on the Army Council and was Director of Intelligence from September 1922 until his appointment as Senior Aide-de-Camp to the new Governor General, Tim Healy in November 1922.

Lyttelton Peak

It was mapped by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) and given the family name of Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, the then Governor-General of New Zealand.

Michio Mado

He graduated from the School of Industrial Instruction in Taipei and then worked for the Office of the Governor-General.

Park Naehyeon

She made a debut by being accepted to Chosen Art exhibition of Governor-General of Korea in 1943.

Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand

The Royal prefix was granted in 1946, and since then the Patron of the Society has been the Governor-General of New Zealand or his wife.

The Australiana Fund

The Australiana Fund is an independent fundraising organisation responsible for the purchase and maintenance of artworks in the four Official Residences of the Governor-General of Australia and the Prime Minister of Australia.

United Nations Security Council election, 1983

The United States, supported by several other delegations, formally objected to the presence of the Grenadian delegate, stating that Sir Paul Scoon Governor-General of Grenada had informed the Secretary-General that no one was authorised to represent Grenada before the UN and that no credentials for the Thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly had been presented by Grenada.

Vic Schroeder

Schroeder contested another by-election in 1979, this time in the north-end Winnipeg riding of Rossmere, recently vacated by former Premier Edward Schreyer upon his appointment at Governor-General of Canada.

Viscount Soulbury

It was created in 1954 for the Conservative politician Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Baron Soulbury at the end of his term as Governor-General of Ceylon.

W. K. Burton

In 1896, after his term at Tokyo Imperial University expired, Burton went to Taiwan as an engineer, where he made outstanding contributions to improving the sanitation systems in Taiwanese cities under the authority of the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan.


Battle of Aliaga

The "Battle of Aliaga" was fought on September 5-6, 1897, between the Philippine revolutionaries of Nueva Ecija and the Spanish forces of Governor General Primo de Rivera.

Battle of Barrosa

A young officer in the 4th Dragoons at the battle, subsequently Colonel William Light and the governor of South Australia in the 1830s, decided to name one of the valleys in his area Barossa Valley in memory, albeit subject to a clerical error.

Bill Ely

His career came to an end at the 1932 election, amidst Labor's heavy defeat after Lang was sacked as Premier by Governor Philip Game; one of many Labor MPs to lose their seats, Ely was defeated by United Australia Party candidate Claude Fleck.

Bonnie Kantor-Burman

She was appointed to that cabinet-level position in January 2011 by Ohio Governor John Kasich.

C. Pope Caldwell

He was appointed by Governor John Alden Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways Convention in 1910.

California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1998

State Assemblyman and Speaker of the Assembly Cruz Bustamante, the Democratic nominee, decisively defeated the Republican nominee, State Senator Tim Leslie, for the office previously held by incumbent Gray Davis, who chose not to seek re-election in favor of running for governor.

Cape Maria van Diemen

The cape was named by Abel Tasman after the wife of his patron, Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of Batavia (now Jakarta) in January 1643, on the same voyage of discovery during which he named Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

Caroline Eden

However, Governor Robert Eden disputed Harford's inheritance, and in 1774 tried to claim a part of the estate on behalf of his wife Caroline.

Catalan Bay

They were required to have a fishing permit granted to them by the Governor and only a limited number of permits were issued.

Crim Dell bridge

These include jumping the wall of the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg after hours, streaking through the Sunken Garden, and swimming in Crim Dell.

David W. Márquez

On March 31, 2005, Governor Frank Murkowski appointed Márquez as Attorney General for the State of Alaska.

Dehesa

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz (1892 to 1911).

Du Yuanying

While later serving as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), he was further blamed for failure of discipline that caused his soldiers to provoke a major Nanzhao invasion against Xichuan, leading to his exile.

Edward Salomon

He was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1862 before becoming governor after Harvey drowned in the Tennessee River while visiting Wisconsin troops after the Battle of Shiloh.

Entrevaux

The remaining population staged an uprising, cutting the throat of the governor, and offered the town to the French Dauphin, King François I.

Federalist

Buenos Aires Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas exerted a growing hegemony over the rest of the country during his 1835-1852 Government and resisted several Unitarian uprisings, but was finally defeated in 1852 by a coalition Army gathered by Entre Ríos Federalist Governor Justo José de Urquiza, who accused Rosas of not complying with Federal Pact provisions for a National Constitution.

Florimond III Robertet d'Alluye

Florimond III, Baron Alluye, (1540? - 1569) was governor of Orléans, and Secretary of State to Francis II of France, and Charles IX of France.

Freddie King

In 1993 by proclamation from the Texas Governor Ann Richards September 3, 1993, was declared Freddie King Day.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

Frederik Otto Scheel

He served as county governor of Stavanger Amt from 1785 to 1799, and is particularly remembered for his contribution to road construction in the district.

Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury

The fortifications here date from the time of Henry VIII; Tilbury Fort remained in military use until 1950, but the office of Governor was discontinued upon the death of Sir Lowry Cole in 1842.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Illegal immigration in Mississippi

Democrat Governor hopeful and current Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree doesn’t support the immigration bill because it would merely be another law passed by the state that would fall on municipal governments to fund.

Indiana Democratic Party

In 1913, Thomas Marshall, Governor of Indiana, became yet another Democratic Hoosier to be a Vice President (under Woodrow Wilson).

James Mejia

Mejía announced his candidacy to become the mayor of Denver in June 2010, succeeding Governor John Hickenlooper.

Jeffrey Cuthbert

He was a governor of the Lewis School, Pengam, and served as Principal of a part-time Adult Education Centre at Aberbargoed.

Jesse Colombo

In October 2013, Jesse issued a warning about Malaysia's economic bubble on his Forbes column, which made news headlines and prompted a response from the country's leaders, including Zeti Akhtar Aziz (the governor of Malaysia’s central bank), Mustapa Mohamed (International Trade and Industry Minister), and Lim Guan Eng (Chief Minister of the State of Penang).

Ji'an, Hualien

In the period of Japanese Occupation of Taiwan, the Governor-General of Taiwan encouraged Japanese to immigrate the regions of Hualien and Taitung and established a village here as “Yoshino” (吉野村).

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

John Bidwell

Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray.

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom, or in Spanish Joseph Melchior de Prat, (Els Prats de Rei, Anoia, 1780 - San Sebastian, 1855) was a Catalan nationalist politician, writer, and in 1835 governor of Barcelona, and 1855 civil governor of Guipuzcoa.

Leo T. McCarthy

McCarthy was first elected to statewide office to the first of three consecutive four-year terms as lieutenant governor of California in 1982, at the same time that Republican George Deukmejian was elected governor.

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

In 1938, following the resignation of lieutenant governor Henry Gunderson, Governor Philip La Follette appointed Herman Ekern lieutenant governor to fill the vacancy.

Lord Gowrie

Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955), British soldier and colonial governor

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.

National Farmers Organization

However, much of the initial impetus for the NFO’s early growth came from positive comments made by former Iowa Governor Daniel Webster Turner when he was asked about it by the press.

Ottawa Valley

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnigan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Pamlico River

The latter was home and operating base for the pirate Blackbeard, who was finally pardoned by Governor Charles Eden.

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Petition of Free Negroes

Because the grants were spread around the province, isolating the freed men among the otherwise-white settlers, on June 29, 1794, nineteen men from the Niagara region submitted a petition to Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe hoping to address this.

Pownal, Maine

The town was set off and incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on March 3, 1808, named in honor of former Governor Thomas Pownall, who had died three years before.

Richard Norton

Richard Norton of Southwick Park (1615–1691), British colonel in the parliamentary army in the English Civil War; MP and Governor of Portsmouth

St Matthew's Church, Guildford

It was a small octagonal mud-brick church, hastily built on land donated by Governor James Stirling on his Woodbridge estate, next to where Guildford Grammar School now stands.

Susan Wefald

She was appointed to the Public Service Commission in 1993 by Governor Ed Schafer to complete the term by Dale V. Sandstrom, who resigned.

Tennessee State Route 71

At this time, South Knox Blvd. ends at Sevierville Pike, although there are current plans to extend the road to meet U.S. Highway 441 (Chapman Highway) or Tennessee SR-168 (Governor John Sevier Highway).

Tēvita ʻUnga

(3 August 1854 – 11 March 1885), served as Governor of Haʻapai and Vavaʻu from 1877 to 1885.

Thomas Salmon

Thomas P. Salmon (born 1932), Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont, 1973–1977

Trevor Colbourn

In 1978, Governor Reubin Askew approved the change of name from Florida Technological University to the University of Central Florida.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.