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Governor
A governor (from French gouverneur) is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed...
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Hirohiko Izumida
Hirohiko Izumida (泉田 裕彦, Izumida Hirohiko) is the governor of Niigata Prefecture since October 25, 2004.
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Yukiko Kada
Yukiko Kada (嘉田由紀子, Kada Yukiko) (born May 18, 1950) is the governor of Shiga Prefecture. She is the first female governor of Shiga and the fifth female governor in Japanese history. She was first elected in 2006 defeating incumbent governor...
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Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 - December 5, 1963) was a Democratic Party politician from New York. He was Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957.
Lehman, born in New York...
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- 1942
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- 1933
Per Unckel
Per Carl Gustav Unckel (born 1948) is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician and currently the Governor of Stockholm County.
He was born in Östergötland and was at one time chairman of the Moderate Youth League district there. He studied law in...
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- 2007
Gerald L. Baliles
Gerald L. Baliles (born July 8, 1940) was a Governor of Virginia and is the director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Founded in 1975, the Miller Center is a leading public policy institution that serves as a...
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- 1990
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- 1986
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office....
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- Jan 14, 1975
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- Jan 12, 1971
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New...
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- Mar 1, 1913
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- Jan 17, 1911
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875), the 17th President of the United States (1865–69), was the first U.S. President to be impeached, as well as the first U.S. president to succeed to the presidency upon the assassination of his...
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- Nov 3, 1857
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- Oct 17, 1853
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk (pronounced /ˈpoʊk/ POKE) (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, but mostly lived in and represented the state of Tennessee. A...
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- Oct 15, 1841
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- Oct 14, 1839
John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of a predecessor.
A longtime Democratic-Republican, Tyler was nonetheless elected...
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- Mar 4, 1827
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- Dec 10, 1825
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980,...
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- Dec 28, 1812
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- May 13, 1800
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (pronounced /væn ˈbjʊərɨn/ or /væn ˈbjɜrɨn/; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the 10th...
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- Mar 5, 1829
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- Jan 1, 1829
James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state;...
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- Jan 1, 1802
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- Dec 19, 1799
James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state;...
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- Apr 5, 1811
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- Jan 16, 1811
Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
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- Jun 3, 1781
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- Jun 1, 1779
Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, pronounced [rʌˈman ʌrˈkadʲɪvʲɪtʃ ʌbrɐˈmovʲɪtʃ]; born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian billionaire and the main owner of the private investment...
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- 2008
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- 2000
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale...
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- Oct 13, 1906
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- Sep 29, 1906
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief...
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John Sullivan
John Sullivan (b. February 17, 1740, Somersworth, New Hampshire – d. January 23, 1795, Durham, New Hampshire) was the third son of Irish immigrants and an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress.
Sullivan...
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John Taylor Gilman
John Taylor Gilman (December 19, 1753 – September 1, 1828) was a farmer, shipbuilder, and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and was Governor of New Hampshire for fourteen...
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- 1805
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- 1794
John Taylor Gilman
John Taylor Gilman (December 19, 1753 – September 1, 1828) was a farmer, shipbuilder, and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and was Governor of New Hampshire for fourteen...
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- 1816
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- 1813
Frederick Irwin
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Chidley Irwin (1788–1860) was acting Governor of Western Australia from 1847 to 1848.
Born in 1788 in Enniskillen, Ireland, Frederick Chidley Irwin was the son of Reverend James Irwin. In 1808, he was commissioned into...
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- Aug 1848
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- Feb 1847
Robert P. Bass
Robert Perkins Bass (September 1, 1873 – July 29, 1960) was an American farmer, forestry expert, and Republican politician from Peterborough, New Hampshire. He served in both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature and as chairman of the state's...
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- 1910
Eduardo Duhalde
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (born October 5, 1941) is a former president of Argentina.
Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires. He graduated as a lawyer in 1970. In 1987 he became a member of the Argentine National Congress and...
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- Dec 10, 1999
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- Dec 10, 1991
John Alexander Bannerman
Colonel John Alexander Bannerman (June 5, 1759–August 8, 1819), was appointed Governor of Prince of Wales' Island (Penang Island, Malaysia) and Province Wellesley (Seberang Perai) (both forming the settlement of Penang) in 1817 and also Treasurer...
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Arthur Dobbs
Arthur Dobbs (2 April 1689 – 28 March 1765) was a wealthy landowner in North Carolina and served as colonial governor from 1754 to 1765.
A native of Ayrshire, Scotland, Dobbs grew up in Ireland. He was a neighbor and family friend of Jonathan Swift...
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- 1764
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- 1754
William Tryon
William Tryon (June 8, 1729–January 27, 1788) was colonial governor of the Province of North Carolina (1765-1771) and the Province of New York (1771-1780).
Tryon was born June 8, 1729 at the family's seat at Norbury Park, Surrey, England the son of...
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- 1771
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- 1765
