Sentence examples for post of lieutenant from inspiring English sources

She served until 1994, when she ran for and won the post of lieutenant governor.

Fairfax, like most elected to the part-time post of lieutenant governor, is generally not very well known.

Elected to the largely ceremonial post of lieutenant governor, Mr. Paterson, unlike Mr. Spitzer, has no sure mandate of his own.

Risch then returned to the post of lieutenant governor, holding it until he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008.

McDougall took up the post of lieutenant governor of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories in 1869, but his attempts to exert his authority met with resistance from the Red River settlers, who repelled him at Pembina.

In 2006, he surprised the Democratic establishment in Albany by leaving the Senate — and the possibility of becoming majority leader if the Democrats capture a majority there — to run for the largely ceremonial post of lieutenant governor.

Republican women now occupy the posts of Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, as well as four Secretary of States around the country.

His first recorded commission was to the post of third lieutenant of HMS Elizabeth on 1 June 1689, under the command of Captain David Mitchell.

He was posted to Lieutenant Colonel Harold Grimwade's 4th Field Artillery Brigade of the 2nd Division Artillery, along with Vasey and Milford.

Hindman rose to the rank of lieutenant and Post Adjutant by the end of the war in 1848, but did not see any major action during the remainder of his time with the infantry.

Folks are already partying down, flush with the prospects of electing Illinois State Senator Rickey "Hollywood" Hendon to the post of the state's lieutenant governor.