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32 unusual facts about Governor


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.

Eleuthera

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

Francisco de la Cuesta

title= Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines

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 Ceylon

When Ceylon became a republic in 1972 the post replaced by the office of President of Sri Lanka.

Governor-Generalship of the Steppes

It consisted of four or five provinces: Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Turgai, Uralsk and from 1882 to 1899 Semirechensk, having a total area of 855,000 square kilometers and a total population of 3,454,000 (both including Semirechensk) in 1897.

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

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.

:For other uses see Governor's Bridge

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.

It also had a former club, Gateway, located in Medford; Gateway had closed temporarily but has since re-opened (now located at the Holiday Inn in Ronkonkoma), though not run by the Governor's group.

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.

A typical student participates in an elective, along with the core courses of Physics, "New Tech," and Robotics.

Governor's School of International Studies

The program has traditionally included a one-week immersion study in Quebec, Canada.

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.

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 Joseph Davye

In 1985 he founded the Composition program at the newly established Governor's School for the Arts, in Norfolk, VA.

John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham

He died in July 1949, aged 67, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Charles, who later served as Governor-General of New Zealand.

John Pittenger

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

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.

Michio Mado

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

Pioneer Sergeant

In Australia, the tradition began in 1965 when Governor-General Lord De L’Isle presented the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), with its Colours.

Seiichi Kuno

After his return to Japan, Kuno served in a number of administrative and staff positions, including that of Secretary to the Governor-General of Korea in 1927.

Taft Avenue MRT Station

The station is named after Taft Avenue, which is named after former U.S. President and US Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1901 to 1903.

Torinturk

He served as a Cabinet minister during World War Two; as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1951-1959, and as Governor-General of Australia from 1960-1961.

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.

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

He was appointed CVO and KCVO in 1900 and 1903 respectively, and in 1904 he became Governor of New Zealand as well as a KCMG the following year.


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.

Belmore, New South Wales

Belmore is named after the fourth Earl of Belmore, Governor of New South Wales from 1868-1872.

Bernie Fowler

(However, the party's nomination and eventually the governor's seat would go to Parris Glendening that year.)

Bonnie Kantor-Burman

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

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.

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.

Charles Trevelyan

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (1807-1886), civil servant and Governor of Madras

Chatham, New Hampshire

Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the "Blanchard Map" of the North Country.

Christiana Morgan

The nude portrait statue of Morgan commissioned by Murray from Gaston Lachaise is now owned by the Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts.

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).

Dominion of New England

The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose charter was issued in 1691 and began operating in 1692 under governor Sir William Phips, combined the territories of those two provinces, along with the islands south of Cape Cod (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands) that had been Dukes County in the colony of New York.

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.

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.

Geng Yan

He was the son of Geng Kuang (耿況), who was the governor of Shanggu Commandery (上谷, roughly modern Zhangjiakou, Hebei).

Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu

Later the college moved to its present location and is now known as Government College of Technology (GCT), the college was named after the then Madras governor Arthur Hope.

Governor Murray

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies

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).

History of the Jews in New York City

Governor Peter Stuyvesant was at first unwilling to accept them but succumbed to pressure from the Dutch West India Company--itself pressed by Jewish stockholders--to let them remain.

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.

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).

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.

John Irwin

John N. Irwin (1847–1905), American politician, governor of Idaho Territory, 1883–1884, and Arizona Territory, 1890–1892

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.

Leonardtown, Maryland

Nearly 20 years later, Seymour Town was renamed again to Leonard Town in honor of Benedict Leonard Calvert, who was Maryland's Governor during this period.

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.

Martin Schreiber

Martin J. Schreiber (born 1939), his son, Democratic legislator and Acting Governor of Wisconsin

Michael Ogio

He became acting as governor-general on 20 December 2010 when Jeffrey Nape resigned after one week without explanation.

Sir Michael Ogio, GCMG, CBE (born 7 July 1942) is the ninth and current Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.

Monroe, North Carolina

The former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States.

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.

Niklas Frank

Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939) is a German author and journalist best known for writing a book which denounced his father Hans Frank (a German lawyer who was executed after being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials for his actions, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from his involvement with the Nazi party and as Governor-General of occupied Poland during World War II).

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.

Promont

The Italianate Victorian home was purchased in 1879 by John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio.

Ramon Mitra, Jr.

Bernardo Mitra, his fourth son, has been working for government in various capacities since 1989 and his youngest, Abraham Kahlil Mitra, is currently the Governor of Palawan.

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.

Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip

Justice John Walpole Willis was appointed the first Resident Judge by Governor George Gipps, largely to provide some measure of peace within the judicial establishment, Willis having been engaged in a number of acrimonious conflicts with his fellow judges in Sydney.

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.

Trevor Colbourn

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

Victor M. Richel

In 1996, Richel was appointed to the Banking Advisory Board of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, after a nomination by Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

William Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901–81), 59th Governor of Rhode Island, grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt

Zuazo

Alonso de Zuazo (1466–1539), Spanish lawyer and colonial judge, that was governor in New Spain and in Santo Domingo