Katharine was left with the Post to run.
Mr. Kelly had left his post to run for Congress.
Another prominent figure with ambitions for the presidency, Jean-François Copé, reportedly turned down the interior minister post to run the ruling party Union for a Popular Movement.
Mr. Sarin left that post to run an Internet start-up called InfoSpace in 2000, though he remained on Vodafone's board.
She left that post to run for mayor last year and then became executive director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater.
The president announced on Nov. 29, 1967, that Mr. McNamara would give up his defense post to run the World Bank.
La Scala is going through management changes: Mr. Lissner is leaving his post to run the Paris Opera, and will be succeeded by Alexander Pereira, the artistic director of the Salzburg Festival.
Please don't let me die in a way that allows the Post to run a small item about my death on page 12 or 13 or so under the headline "dude, where's my corpse?" Or "dumb and deader".
However, after the deepening global economic crisis helped spark violent protests in Vilnius in January 2009, Grybauskaite left her EU post to run as an independent candidate in Lithuania's presidential election.
Mr. Emanuel, before stepping down from his White House post to run for mayor in Chicago, often produced a spreadsheet when reporters asked if Democrats were ready for the final push of the campaign.
The president, Michael O'Halleran, 54, said he was not vying for the position and would leave his post to run Aon's reinsurance, wholesale brokerage and underwriting units next year.
