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Albert Isola

He later became a Government Minister for Financial Services and Gaming after becoming elected to Parliament in the 2013 by-election.

Bernt Lie

Through his father's brother, writer Jonas Lie he was a first cousin of Michael Strøm Lie, writers Mons Lie and Erik Lie, and a first cousin once removed of Erik's son, the Nazi Jonas Lie.

Claudio Huepe

During his career, he was the provincial governor of Arauco, a member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, a government minister, and the Chilean ambassador to Venezuela.


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1971 in Israel

7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born ultra-orthodox Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.

2009 structural changes to local government in England

On 27 March 2007 Local Government Minister Phil Woolas announced that 16 councils bidding for unitary status had been shortlisted to go forward for public consultation.

Adoor Prakash

He served as the Minister of Food & Civil supplies in the Oommen Chandy Ministry from 2004 to 2006.Presently he is the Revenue Minister of Kerala in the cabinet headed by Oommen Chandy.

Akkaraipattu Municipal Council

Ahamed Zackie Athaullah (NC) is the son of Local Government Minister A. L. M. Athaullah.

Albert Jacob

--Can be repeated up to eight times by adding a number-->Albert Paul Jacob (born 16 March 1980) is Minister for Environment and Heritage in the Western Australian Government.

Allan MacDonald

Allan McDonald (1888–1953), Australian politician and government minister

António da Mota Veiga

António Jorge Martins da Mota Veiga (Cascais, 28 February 1915 – Lisbon, CUF Hospital, 14 November 2005) was a Portuguese politician and former Minister and law professor.

Arbanasi people

Božidar Kalmeta (b. 1958) – Mayor of Zadar 1994–2003 and 2013-present, former Croatian government minister

Assaad Hardan

He was elected since 1992 member of the Lebanese Parliament represented the Greek Orthodox seat from Marjeyoun-Hasbaya district and has been named repeatedly to the government: Minister of State without portfolio between 1990 and 1992 (government of Omar Karami and Rachid Solh), Minister of Labour between 1995 and 1998 and between 2003 and 2004, he was succeeded by Assem Qanso in 2004.

Bodø Airport

The assailant was overpowered by passengers, including Odd Eriksen, later a member of the government (Minister of Commerce), and the aircraft made a safe landing at Bodø.

Camden New Journal

In 2006, the Camden New Journal - and its sister paper the Islington Tribune - broke the national story that Government minister Margaret Hodge had described the war in Iraq as British Prime Minister Tony Blair's biggest mistake.

Carlos Auyero

On 17 April 1997, Auyero participated in the programme Hora Clave on Canal 9 presented by Mariano Grondona, appearing in a panel debate with government minister Eduardo Amadeo as well as journalist Néstor Ibarra and economist Enrique Szewach.

Christine Gilbert

Divorced from her first husband, she met then councillor and later government minister Tony McNulty when she was Director of Education for the London Borough of Harrow.

Criticism of science

Examples in Britain include the controversy over the MMR inoculation, and the 1988 forced resignation of a government minister, Edwina Currie, for revealing the high probability that battery eggs were contaminated with Salmonella.

Elias Sarkis

The requiem mass in East Beirut was attended by a Syrian delegation led by a government minister representing then Syrian president Hafez Assad.

First Intifada

Public statements calling for transfer of the Palestinian population were made by Deputy Defense minister Michael Dekel, Cabinet Minister Mordechai Tzipori and government Minister Yosef Shapira among others.

Georg Jacob Bull

Georg Jacob Bull was the father of later government minister Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull.

Ian McLeod

Iain Macleod (1913–1970), British Conservative Party politician and government minister

Le Journal de Montréal

This change was accompanied by the addition of several new columnists, including journalist and television host Richard Martineau, former Quebec government ministers Yves Séguin and Joseph Facal, former federal government Minister Sheila Copps,former hockey player Guy Lafleur and the ex-hacker Mafiaboy.

LGBT rights in Cameroon

A Cameroon court jailed Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga for four months for defaming Gregoire Owona, a government minister named in the list of 50 presumed homosexuals in Cameroon.

Mac Holten

Rendle McNeilage "Mac" Holten CMG (29 March 1922 – 12 October 1996) was a leading Australian rules footballer, Australian politician and government minister.

Monpoint Jeune

On 17 October 1889, he was replaced as president by the minister of Agriculture, Florvil Hyppolite.

Moyle Park College

Notable past pupils include former Irish politician and government minister John Curran,Olympic boxer Kenneth Egan, television presenter Brian Ormond.

Music of Nauru

Baron Waqa, who has also served as a government minister, has been noted for his musical composition activity.

Nadina Abarth-Zerjav

Nadina Abarth-Žerjav (née Žerjav) (March 5, 1912, Görz (Gorizia) – September 17, 2000, Ljubljana) was the daughter of the Slovene politician and lawyer minister Gregor Žerjav and his wife, Milena née Lavrenčič.

Nollet

Charles Nollet (1865–1941), French general and government minister

Old National Library Building

On May 28, the MND Minister, S. Dhanabalan chaired a dialogue attended predominantly by invited professionals such as planners, architects and property consultants to review the Master Plan exhibited a month earlier.

Optima Telekom

The company was started with significant funding from the Hypo Group, and was at the time headed by Roland Žuvanić, a former government minister of transport.

Osseiran

Ali Osseiran, Lebanese politician, MP amd former Lebanese government minister

Parade College

Andrew Robb AO MP, Commonwealth Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt Reduction, and former Howard Government Minister

Peter Kirk

Sir Peter Michael Kirk (1928–1977), British Conservative MP and government minister

Potlako Leballo

The next day Leballo was arrested while waiting to meet Edson Zvobgo, a government minister, imprisoned, and deported the next day.

Prasanna Kumar Roy

Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, central government minister Renuka Ray and Prasanta Mukherjee, a General Manager of the Bengal Nagpur Railways were his grandchildren.

Private Secretary

In the United Kingdom government, a Private Secretary (with capital letters) is a civil servant in a Department or Ministry, responsible to the Secretary of State or Minister.

Shirley Summerskill

Her mother Edith Summerskill had also been a Labour MP and government minister; her nephew, Ben Summerskill, is chief executive of the UK gay equality charity Stonewall.

Stamp Advisory Committee

In 1996 for instance, questions were asked in the House of Lords about the choice of a stamp showing the British children's television character Muffin the Mule over one showing the designer William Morris and a government minister was forced to explain that such choices were not part of the work of the SAC.

Statens Serum Institut

Administratively, the State Serum Institute sorts under the Danish Ministry of Health and Prevention under minister Astrid Krag.

Swaran Singh

He was a member of the eminent persons group on South Africa sponsored by the Commonwealth Institute that consisted of Malcolm Fraser who had been Prime Minister of Australia for eight years, General Obasanjo of Nigeria, Lord Barber who had been Edward Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer and was also chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, Dame Nita Barrow, Reverend Scott and John Malecela, a Tanzanian former government minister.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland

Brian Adam — first Latter-day Saint member of the Scottish Parliament, and later became a government minister

The Higher Mortals

On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.

The Man on the Moor

It is an assertion strongly denied by her daughter Charlotte Waters, married to James Waters, a junior government minister who is worried that such rumours could prejudice his parliamentary career.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

In the satirical British series Yes Minister, it is used by civil servant Bernard Woolley in the episode "The Bed of Nails", in which government minister Hacker is offered an apparently advantageous role which would actually lose him votes, the bed of nails.

Tom Garrett

Tom Garrett's great-grandson is the former Midnight Oil lead singer and now Australian federal politician and government minister, Peter Garrett.

Tueni

Ghassan Tueni (1926-2012), Lebanese journalist, ambassador, politician, government minister, Member of Parliament

Unit 669

Former unit commander (1978-1980) Dr. Efraim Sneh, rose to become a Brigadier General, a Knesset member and government minister (Health; Transportation; deputy Defense Minister).

William Maurice Brown

William Maurice Brown, Lt. Colonel, Squadron Leader, recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations, New Zealand government minister, mountain climber, shooter, boxer, teacher, administrator, the founder of Faujdarhat Cadet College had left his disciples for eternal peace but his legend will continue to live.