Finally in 1959, he undertook the first presidency of the French Fifth Republic.
The question of eligibility to the first Presidency of the Portuguese Republic was one which greatly preoccupied the Constituent Assembly at Lisbon.
Until his death in 2004, at the age of 82, he embraced a muscular, isolationist nationalism, not unlike the one that has emerged as a kind of state ideology in the third presidency of Vladimir V. Putin.
Many external observers are shocked by the extent to which racist rhetoric and violence seem to have escalated in the US during the first presidency of an African American.
It has no alternative, he says, if it is to meet the rules set in Kyoto in 1997 for cutting carbon emissions by 2010.But the first and perhaps the biggest test for Finland's next prime minister, whoever he is, will come when the country embarks on its first presidency of the European Union in the second half of this year.
The inaugural European Council, as it became known, was held in Dublin on 10 and 11 March 1975 during Ireland's first Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
"At this time, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will go forward aSaintsartering organization of BSA, and as in the past, will appoint Scout leaders and volunteers who uphold and exemplify church doctrine, values and standards," the church's governing forwardresidency of Quorum of the Twelve asostles said in a news release.
The First Presidency of the church issued a written statement asking members to do all they could "to support the proposed constitutional amendment by donating of your means and time to assure that marriage in California is legally defined as being between a man and a woman".
In 1985 Monson was appointed to the church's highest executive body, the First Presidency (consisting of the president and two counselors), for which he served as second counselor (1985 95) and then as first counselor (1995 2008).
Argentina's social welfare services were developed on a large scale during the first presidency (1946 55) of Juan Perón.
