Declared king of Lombardy at Pavia, he reached Rome after the Pope's death, whereupon he secured the election of his 23-year-old cousin, Bruno of Carinthia, as Gregory V, the first German pope.
While there he secured the election of, and consecrated, Mennas as successor to the patriarch Anthimus I, whom he deposed for his Monophysite beliefs (that Christ had but one nature).
He secured the election of the Austrian archduke John as German regent and attempted to persuade Prussia to play the chief role in a unified Germany without eliminating Austria altogether.
But others on the right kept up their attacks, in a taste of what Obama could face in the November election if he secures the Democratic nomination.
He also secured the election of Gerbert of Aurillac as Sylvester II.
He helped secure the election of Wulfstan as his successor at Worcester.
Ahmadinejad cannot stand for a third term next year, but some Iranian media reports said he hoped to secure the election of his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, to succeed him.
He was instrumental in securing the election of the emperor Charles V in 1519 after refusing the crown himself.
A year ago, before Barack Obama's prodigious fund-raising powers were clocked in at $1 million a day, the senator made a great show out of raising a good idea: He would take the narrower road of public financing in the general election if he secured the nomination and his opponent did the same.
It was Burr, in fact, more than anyone who secured the election for Jefferson, although he soon would be accused of trying to steal it from him.
However, in the end he was not able to garner enough support to secure the election.
