Sentence examples for founding governor from inspiring English sources

By contrast, hard liquor was prohibited in some American territory even before the country formed: in 1733, James Oglethorpe, the founding governor of the British province of Georgia, banned "the importation of ardent spirits".

Her great-great-grandfather Rolla Wells was a mayor of St . Louis the treasurer of Woodrow Wilson's Presidential campaign in 1912 and a founding governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1914.

Rather, John Winthrop, founding governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, first voiced the conviction that God had summoned the people of the New World - or at least those settling in New England - to serve as a model for all humankind.

For four years, he was Governor for the Television Executives Peer Group and helped the Academy launch the Interactive Media Peer Group in 2000, serving as a Founding Governor of that group.

He taught at nine medical schools; was chief of clinical pathology for the Centers for Disease Control when it was part of the U.S. Public Health Service; systematized clinical testing by laboratories; and was president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, a founding governor of the College of American Pathologists and the first president of the Assn. of Clinical Scientists.

Unusually, one of its founding governors was an artist, William Hogarth.

Zaw is also committed to non-profits, serving on the national board of After School All Stars (ASAS), founded by Governor Schwarzenegger and now the largest non-profit of its kind, serving over 85,000 underprivileged 6-8th graders in schools across the US.

The Brukenthal Museum was founded by Samuel Brukenthal, governor of Transylvania (1777 87), in his own Austrian Baroque residence with his collection of paintings, antiques, engravings, and books; it also houses important collections in ethnography, folk art, and natural science.

Mr. Dean's main topic will not be the White House, but rather the state house, according to an aide at Democracy for America, the group the former Vermont governor founded after his failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The bridegroom is a descendant of Patrick Henry (1736-1799), fatherng fander and first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Kent Hance was in the Texas Legislature and Congress and on the Railroad Commission and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate and for governor before founding a law firm in Austin.