Sentence examples for successively elected from inspiring English sources

Such an amendment would have to be approved by two successively elected Legislatures and then put to voters.

He was successively elected three more times to the United States Congress.

He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor and United States senator in Kentucky history.

Consequently, when the newly independent Americans drew up their Revolutionary state constitutions in 1776, most states generally limited the number of years their annually elected governors could successively hold office.

He then entered politics, was elected to the Congress, and served successively as minister of public instruction, of justice, and of the interior.

Two years later he was elected to the U.S. Senate and was successively reelected until his death.

After serving successively as Democratic whip and floor leader, he was elected speaker of the House (1931).

First elected to the U.S. House in 1862, he was successively reelected until his death.

He was elected to the lower house of the Diet (parliament) in 1972 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) and was successively reelected thereafter.

Elected to the federal executive (Bundesrat) in December 1866, he served six terms as president of the confederation (1869, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1891) and successively headed the departments of the army, posts and telegraphs, justice, and railways.

"Number one: getting elected or re-elected.