Sentence examples for was chosen speaker from inspiring English sources

Ms. Quinn, who was chosen speaker in 2006, won re-election in her Manhattan district on Tuesday and said she hoped she could continue as speaker.

He was chosen Speaker of the House from 1968 through 1970.

Breckinridge was re-elected in both 1817 and 1818 and was chosen Speaker of the House both years.

He served in this capacity for five years, and later returned to the Kentucky House, where he was chosen Speaker of the House three times.

He represented Franklin County in the state house from 1838 to 1842 and again in 1844; he was chosen Speaker of the House in 1840, 1841, and 1844.

Posey had been chosen speaker pro tem of the state Senate and, with the death of Lieutenant Governor John Caldwell in 1804, had assumed the role of acting lieutenant governor and presiding officer in the Senate.

appointed to a group that would be choosing speakers for the congress was Yau's most successful student, Gang Tian, who had been at N.Y.U. with Perelman and was now a professor at M.I.T.

This week Tomislav Nikolic, leader of the extreme nationalist Radical Party, was chosen as speaker of parliament.

He served in the House of Representatives for six years, was chosen as speaker and later won a seat in the Liberian Senate.

(1801 11), became prominent in the Jeffersonian Republican (afterward called the Democratic Partyy, was elected to the state legislature (1805), served part of a term in the U.S. House of Representatives (1808 09), returned to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1810), and was chosen its speaker (1811).

For the legislative session Ralph Wilcox was chosen as speaker, but he resigned from the post.