In 1997, he ran for the Manhattan borough presidency on a single issue: If elected, he vowed to abolish the job.
But in recent years the question has consumed an inordinate amount of attention.That is partly because Stephen Harper, the prime minister, came into office in 2006 vowing either to reform the Senate by making it an elected body or to abolish it.
In 1950 Heffron's seat of Botany was abolished and largely replaced by Maroubra, which he was subsequently elected to and would hold until his retirement in 1968.
An Old Court majority was elected to both houses of the General Assembly in 1826, which then passed legislation abolishing the New Court.
The farcical UN Commission on Human Rights was recently abolished and replaced with an elected body, but there are serious flaws in the constitution of the new Human Rights Council, and stalwarts of freedom and human dignity such as Cuba, China and Pakistan have been elected to it.
Nixon elected to do neither.
1991 Elected to the Royal Academy.
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1951.
Both patients elected to undergo revision.
