Sentence examples for was finally elected from inspiring English sources

Having fought his way to military dominance in Liberia, the flamboyant rebel leader was finally elected president in 1997 with more than 75% of votes in an election that most poll monitors deemed to be largely a fair contest.

He contested elections through the 1920s and 1930s with little success until he was finally elected to the House of Commons in 1940.

Mr. Toledo was finally elected this year.

He was finally elected to the Senate in 1952, at the age of fifty-seven.

He ran and lost five times before he was finally elected in 1990.

In 1999, he was finally elected as chief minister of Maharashtra and was re-elected in 2004.

In 1572 she presented him as a candidate for the vacant throne of Poland, to which he was finally elected in May 1573.

Nevertheless, following the death of Emperor Ferdinand, Leopold was finally elected (1658) after having conceded constitutional limitations that restricted his liberty of action in foreign politics.

As for them, Ingres was finally elected to the French Academy and, as with many people who crave respect, that seemed to reduce his jealousy.

In August, time caught up when, four decades after he was driven out, he was finally elected to public office again.

In 1780 Goya was finally elected a member of the Academy and when his first portrait commissions arrived they came from the nobility.