The erstwhile leader in the polls, Howard Dean, finished a miserable third with less than half of Mr Kerry's total.
As is Brooks Koepka, erstwhile leader of this tournament, who is at least unlike Johnson moving the right way: birdie at 15 for him.
Both events were able to field top women speakers, including the deputy leader of the SNP, the shadow Scottish secretary, and the erstwhile leader of the Scottish Tories.
When an agreement giving Ireland Free Statehood is signed, a part of the band ceases to fight, and its erstwhile leader becomes a Free State army officer.
Then along came Trump, the erstwhile leader of the birther movement – insisting that Obama was not a legitimate president, because he had really been born in Kenya.
The results provided a rare bit of good news for beleaguered Nokia, the erstwhile leader of the mobile phone business, now fighting for survival in an industry dominated by Apple, Samsung and makers of handsets running Google's Android operating system.
Few French voters were impressed: the popularity ratings of the two men are near record lows.Joschka Fischer, erstwhile leader of Germany's Green Party and foreign minister from 1998 to 2005, is to stand down from the German parliament.
The exhibition brochure contains a poem by Roger Waters in which the erstwhile leader of Pink Floyd hymns the "asdic ping" of pianos past and "dancing motes that never fade away".
