Sentence examples for which elected him from inspiring English sources

Rosas reconvened the former legislature, which elected him governor on Dec. 5, 1829.

The Guardian Council, which elected him, is filled with both reformers and reactionaries.

In 1995, Governor Whitman appointed Dr. Mappen to the Task Force on New Jersey History, which elected him vice chairman.

Plans to convene the 800-strong Ulster Unionist council, which elected him as leader, were being drawn up.

"I wrote the life of Lincoln which elected him," William Dean Howells once boasted to Mark Twain.

Before he was 20, he exhibited his work at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, which elected him a member in 1853.

Leaders in these areas say they are reflecting the wishes of the communities which elected them.

But the prime minister insists that he is a democrat, with a solid mandate from a public which has elected him to office three times in fair elections.

A formidable agrarian agitation developed when Davitt joined forces with Charles Stewart Parnell, a young Protestant landowner and member of Parliament in the Home Rule Party, which soon elected him as its leader in place of Butt.

(It should be noted, however, that William II's cousin, William Frederick, of the junior branch of Orange-Nassau, continued to govern Friesland as well as Groningen, which also elected him stadtholder).

He was also familiar to the board, which had elected him president a year ago, and whose members had worked with him since 1995, when he was named chief financial officer.