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unusual facts about acting governor



Vesta M. Roy

As president of the New Hampshire Senate, she served as acting governor of the state from December 29, 1982 until January 6, 1983 as a result of the death of Governor Hugh Gallen shortly before the inauguration of the governor-elect, John H. Sununu.


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1890 in Germany

Cameroon (Kamerun) — Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term) to ((17 April)), then Markus Graf Pfeil, to 3 August, then ... Kurz (acting governor) to December 2, then Jesko von Puttkamer (acting governor) (2nd term)

1909 in Germany

Cameroon (Kamerun) - Theodor Seitz (3rd term) to 10 February, the ...Hansen (acting governor) to October, the again Theodor Seitz (4th and final term)

Ansaruddin Alonto Adiong

Ansaruddin "Hooky" Alonto Adiong is a Filipino politician and current acting governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Arthur MacArthur

Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (1815–1896), lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and acting governor for four days; United States federal judge

Badu Bonsu II

In 1837, Badu Bonsu II rebelled against the Dutch government, and killed several officers, including acting governor Hendrik Tonneboeijer.

Baltasar Corrada del Río

On November 24, 2010 a ceremony was held at the Puerto Rico Department of State to announce the publication of Baltasar Corrada Del Río-Sus opiniones 1995-2005 a book containing excerpts from 61 of his Supreme Court opinions edited by Pontifical Catholic University Law School dean Angel González Román, at which Acting Governor Kenneth McClintock and Chief Justice Federico Hernandez Denton were the keynote speakers.

Bayanqolu

In December 2012 he was appointed Acting Governor of Jilin, succeeding Wang Rulin, who was promoted to Communist Party Chief of the province.

Blair Lee

Blair Lee III (1916-1985), acting Governor of Maryland, 1977-1979

Central Bank of Iraq

Currently the acting Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq is Abdel Basset Turki, which also happens to be the head of the state-spending watchdog the Board of Supreme Audit.

Charles Godeheu

Charles Robert Godeheu de Zaimont was Acting Governor General of Pondicherry who is the Commissioner of French army during Dupleix's reign.

Charley Eugene Johns

During his term as Acting Governor, Johns promoted highway construction, eliminating tolls on the Overseas Highway between Miami and Key West.

David Bernier

At least once during his term, the acting governorship has been delegated to Attorney General Luis Sánchez Betances when both the Governor and Bernier have been absent, and when General Sánchez Betances has also been away, Secretary of the Treasury Melba Acosta has served as Acting Governor.

David W. Ballard

The territory was still reeling from the mismanagement of Ballard's predecessor, Caleb Lyon, deeply divided over the controversial decision to move the capital from Lewiston to Boise, and nearly broke because former territorial secretary Horace C. Gilson had embezzled most of the territory's funds while serving as acting governor between Lyon and Ballard's administrations.

David Watkins

David Ogden Watkins (1862–1938), Acting Governor of New Jersey, 1898–1899

Duan Chengshi

In 853, the story first appeared in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, which was published shortly after he returned to Chang'an after his term of acting Governor of Jizhou (now known as Ji'an in Jiangsu).

Fort Dummer

The fort was named after Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, who was acting governor of Massachusetts at the time of the fort's construction.

Francis Dundas

General Francis Dundas (c.1759, Sanson, Berwickshire – 15 January 1824, Dumbarton, Scotland was a British general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803.

George Barlow

Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet (1762–1847), acting Governor-General of British India 1805-07

Governor of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

# 1925 - Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Iremonger (Acting Governor)

Griffith Barracks

Prominent Irish Nationalist leaders such as William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher (later Acting Governor of Montana), James Stephens (founder of the IRB) and "Honest" Tom Steele, were among its famous historical prisoners.

Henry Minett

On January 16, 1903, Minett was acting-Governor when the formal reply to the deed of secession arrived from President Theodore Roosevelt.

Isaac T. Stoddard

In June 1903, while Governor Alexander Brodie was out of the Territory, Acting Governor Stoddard was faced with a strike of about 3,500 miners in Morenci, Arizona, and sent out the entire force of the Territorial Militia to preserve order.

Jack Sinagra

After Lewis M. Eisenberg left his post as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in September 2001, Sinagra was nominated by Acting Governor of New Jersey Donald DiFrancesco as his replacement.

Jesús F. Méndez

Within three days of his swearing in, he began a rare two-day term as Acting Governor when Gov. Fortuño, as well as the next two officers that precede the Secretary of the Treasury in the line of gubernatorial succession, McClintock and Attorney General Guillermo Somoza, were simultaneously in Washington DC.

John A. Creighton

During this same period of time Creighton was named a "Colonel" by Montana's acting Governor General Thomas Francis Meagher.

José Cortés de Madariaga

He fled to Gibraltar in February 1814, and was delivered up by the acting governor, Sir George Don, to the Spanish authorities, but released in the following year on the reclamation of the British cabinet, which disavowed the conduct of the governor.

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid

Vigil y Alarid was left in charge as acting Governor of New Mexico when his predecessor Manuel Armijo fled Santa Fe to escape the approaching U.S. troops under General Stephen W. Kearny.

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid (1792–1866) was acting Governor of New Mexico in 1846 during the period while the United States consolidated military rule over the former territory of Mexico.

Li Jiheng

In August 2011 he was appointed Acting Governor of Yunnan, succeeding Qin Guangrong, who was promoted to Communist Party Chief of the province.

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612, Ancy-le-Franc – May 31, 1660, Montreal) was the French governor of New France from 1648 to 1651 and acting governor from 1657 to 1658.

Luis Antonio Argüello

He also served as acting governor under the subsequent provisional government, which preceded the First Mexican Republic (of 1824–1864).

Martin Schreiber

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

Ministers of the New Zealand Government

The Acting Governor, Robert Wynyard, did not agree, however, saying that the levers of government could not be turned over to Parliament without approval from Britain.

Natalie Tennant

Public polling conducted in January 2011 showed Tennant to be a front runner in the Democratic primary, alongside acting governor Earl Ray Tomblin.

She lost the primary election to acting governor Earl Ray Tomblin, coming in third place behind state house speaker Rick Thompson.

New Jersey in the 21st century

Senate President Richard Codey served as Acting Governor (then Governor) in McGreevey's place.

Robert Lovett

Robert Morss Lovett (1870–1956) American educator and writer; acting Governor of the United States Virgin Islands

Robert Riley

Bob C. Riley (1924–1994), acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975

Russell Cunningham

Russell McWhortor Cunningham (1855–1921), American Democratic politician, acting Governor of Alabama, 1904–1905

Seal of Indiana

Lieutenant Governor Christopher Harrison became acting-governor when Governor Jonathan Jennings was away conducting negotiations with northern Indiana's native tribes.

Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman

He continued as Moscow's Acting Governor General until April 15, and then moved to Vilna.

Taurekareka Henare

His father, Henare Wynyard, was said to be the son of Robert Wynyard, acting governor of New Zealand.

Thibaudeau Rinfret

Rinfret was acting Governor General (or Administrator of the Government) in 1952 after the departure of Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and until Vincent Massey could officially take his vice-regal post; during this time he proclaimed Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, following the death of King George VI.

Thomas Tudor Tucker

The President of the Governor's Council, and occasional acting Governor of Bermuda, was Bruere's son-in-law, Henry Tucker, who was Thomas T. Tucker's older brother.

Vavaʻu

Hon. Samisoni Fonomanu Tu'i'afitu – The Noble Tu'i'afitu was appointed Acting Governor of Vavaʻu in 1988 and then Governor of Vavaʻu in 1991.

Wang Xiankui

He was transferred yet again in August 2010 to Heilongjiang province, where he was appointed Acting Governor, succeeding Li Zhanshu.

William Miller Jenkins

Territorial Secretary William C. Grimes became acting Governor until President Roosevelt appointed Thompson Benton Ferguson to the Governorship on December 9, 1901.

Xia Baolong

In August 2011, he became the acting governor of Zhejiang, succeeding Lü Zushan, and was officially elected as Governor in January 2012.

Zhu Xiaodan

Zhu was appointed Vice Governor in February 2010 and became acting Governor in November 2011 following the resignation of Huang Huahua.