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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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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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1689
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1765 (age 76 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1729
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1788 (age 58 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1753
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1828 (age 74 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1743
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1826 (age 83 years)
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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;...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1758
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1831 (age 73 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1782
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1862 (age 79 years)
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,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1773
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1841 (age 68 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1790
Date of death:
- Jan 18, 1862 (age 71 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1795
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1849 (age 53 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- 1788
Date of death:
- 1860 (age 72 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1808
Date of death:
- May 7, 1873 (age 65 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1808
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1875 (age 66 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1857
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1930 (age 72 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1873
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1960 (age 86 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1856
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1924 (age 67 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1878
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1963 (age 85 years)
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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....
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1924 (age 85 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1940 (age 69 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1941 (age 68 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Oct 24, 1966 (age 43 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 61 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1740
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1795 (age 54 years)
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Hirohiko Izumida
Hirohiko Izumida (泉田 裕彦, Izumida Hirohiko) is the governor of Niigata Prefecture since October 25, 2004.
Date of birth:
- 1962 (age 47 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1950 (age 59 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1759
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1819 (age 60 years)
