By the time Bush did run for governor, in 1994, Rove had engineered the demise of two of Texas's most promising Democratic politicians, Jim Hightower, the Agriculture Commissioner, and Lena Guerrero, a young commissioner of a state agency, who, Rove revealed (in a rare fully owned-up-to Mark of Rove incident), had lied about her academic credentials.
Then his son cracked the case, proposing a show built around a young Commissioner Gordon.
"In terms of baseball history," Selig told the class, "I thought that would be as important a day as when Pete Rozelle, the young commissioner of the National Football League, in 1961 got the clubs to share their revenues equally".
Happily, the names of Grossman, Burks and Shaker came up at Stern's small, classy, dignified retirement party in late January, and, thankfully, Shaker was there to shake the outgoing Commissioner's hand and welcome the young Commissioner Silver to an NBA world that no one could've ever imagined 30 years ago.
Moskowitz shook hands with Dan Daley, a young city commissioner in Coral Springs.
In 1896, a blazing 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 New Yorkers and, arguably, burnished the progressive and populist credentials of a young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt.
"It's a horrible loss for us, such a young, healthy guy," Commissioner Von Essen said.
A young people's commissioner with real powers should be established in every city and, importantly, it should be a recent graduate who fills the role.
Riis' work greatly impressed a young civil service commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt and spurred Gilded Age reforms.
"Golden Boy" charts the rise of a police officer who becomes the youngest Commissioner in the NYPD's history and it quickly becomes clear that he'll do whatever it takes to get ahead.
Episodes are book-ended by scenes set seven years in the future, when the character, at 34, has become the department's youngest commissioner ever.
