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Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the
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Sadlowski for president of the United Steelworkers. McBride appointed Becker to be an administrative assistant to former District 6 president Lynn Williams, who had been elected secretary of the international union along with McBride. When McBride died unexpectedly in 1983, Williams was elected president to serve out his term. When Williams ran for president in his own right in 1985, Becker ran for international vice president for administration on the Williams slate and won. He was re-elected in 1989. While vice president for administration, Becker chaired the union's Aluminum Industry Conference and oversaw collective bargaining efforts by the union in
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT) and ran unsuccessfully for President three times before achieving victory in the 2002 election. He was re-elected in the 2006 election. The introduction of social programs such as Bolsa Família and Fome Zero were hallmarks of his time in office. As President, Lula played a prominent role
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Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian communist politician who has been the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993. He has been Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001, a deputy in the State Duma since 1993, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1996. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most notably in 1996, when he came close to winning the election, but lost in the second round to incumbent
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Red fascism Red fascism is a pejorative term equating Stalinism and Maoism with fascism. Accusations that the leaders of the Soviet Union during the Stalin era acted as "Red fascists" were commonly stated by Trotskyists, left communists, social democrats, democratic socialists, liberals and anarchists, as well as among right-wing circles. In the first half of the 20th century, a number of socialists in the United States began to hold the view that the Soviet government was becoming a red fascist state. One such leader, Norman Thomas, who ran for U.S. President numerous times under the Socialist Party of America banner,
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as a member of President Nixon's Executive Board of the National Citizens Committee for Fairness to the President. During the Cold War Fry was one of 170 prominent retired generals and admirals who were signatories of a public letter to President Jimmy Carter published in the New York Times urging the president to reinforce Israel's military capability, restore the global military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union and reestablish America's credibility as a leader of the free world, and desist from any arms control agreements with the Soviet Union that would reinforce permanent Soviet strategic superiority. Fry
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the Union of Democratic Forces is 1991. In the January 1992 presidential elections Beron was the running mate of George Ganchev - leader of the Bulgarian Business Bloc. The duo finished third with 853,044 votes (16.8%). Beron ran for president in 2001 with Stoyan Andreev (from the Bulgarian Union) as his running mate. They finished sixth with only 31,394 votes (1.1%). Beron was elected to the National Assembly in the 2005 parliamentary election under the ticket of the new nationalist party - Attack. He split from the party in 2006. Beron ran one last time for president - as an
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as a leader and spokesman for the new political party.” Supported by President Mansour Hadi, who refused on 5 January 2014 to extradite the politician, al-Humayqani has regularly denied all charges. Nonetheless, as David Andrew Weinberg remarks, the U.S. allegations reflect poorly not only on Hadi's exiled administration and on al-Rashad, but on al-Humayqani's Qatari “patron” as well. "The Washington Post" reported that al-Humayqani once served as an adviser on charitable giving to Qatar and was one of the local representatives of the Qatar-based al Karāma organization. Both "The New York Times" and the "Yemeni Marib Press" highlighted that an
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Yablonski continued to serve as an attorney with his father's old District 5, advising on workers' compensation issues and acting as counsel until 1981. Yablonski continued to represent individual miners in various cases throughout his life. In the 1980s, he won several black lung disease cases, overcoming employer objections to providing medical and financial benefits for stricken miners and their families. In 1982, Yablonski won a precedent-setting Supreme Court case concerning attorney's fees. United Steelworkers reformer Edward Sadlowski ran for president of the international union in 1977 and for District 31 president in 1973. He lost both times, and filed
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real leader of the union (through his ties to Scalise), Sullivan adamantly denied any wrongdoing. Bambrick resigned as union president, and Sullivan succeeded him as interim president on June 19, 1941. Sullivan won a full term as president on September 18. Bambrick's charges, however, led to lengthy disputes between the international and Sullivan. Beginning in 1941, BSEIU President McFetridge attempted to repeatedly "try" Sullivan before various union bodies, but was rebuffed numerous times by state and federal courts. Sullivan was elected a BSEIU international vice-president in 1941, and by 1945 had solidified his power in the union. Sullivan's position on
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Social Progress. Union for Democracy and Social Progress boycotted the polls of the General Election held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2006, Complaining of fraud. Étienne Tshisekedi, then leader of the party, ran for president in the 2011 General Election. The current leader of the party is Félix Tshisekedi. Various members of the party, including Tshisekedi, have also served as Prime Minister. Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Democratic Republic of the Congo) The Union for Democracy and Social Progress () is one of the major contemporary political parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo along
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end of his presidential term in 1958, Aramburu retired from the military career and devoted himself entirely to politics. He ran for president in 1963 as leader of the Union of the Argentine People ("Union del Pueblo Argentino," UDELPA), with the slogan "Vote UDELPA and HE won't return" ("Vote UDELPA y no vuelve"), referring to Perón. With the Peronists banned, the Presidential elections resulted in Arturo Umberto Illia becoming president, with Aramburu coming in third. Yet the military retained much real power, censoring both Peronism and its leader. The fragility of Argentine democracy was shown when Illia was overthrown in
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educated at the Trinity School, Croydon and then New College, Oxford, where he led the Oxford University Conservative Association. He was elected to the position of Librarian of the Oxford Union, a senior position, and ran for President several times without being elected, on one occasion losing to William Hague. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was an international investment banker. He was elected to Croydon Council in 1982 in Broad Green ward and later represented the ward of Heathfield. He served as Chair, first of the Education Committee in the early 1990s and subsequently became Deputy Leader of the
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States Olympic Team. Forshaw entered in the Missouri Athletic Club's All-Western Marathon six times between 1905 and 1912. In addition to winning in the inaugural event he came second three times and fourth twice. He reportedly finished every race in which he ever ran. After retiring from distance running he twice served as President of the Western Amateur Athletic Union. Joseph Forshaw (athlete) Joseph Forshaw, Jr. (May 13, 1881 – November 26, 1964) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon. Forshaw ran the Marathon in three Olympic Games. He competed for the United States in the 1908
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Frederick Chiluba Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (April 30, 1943 – June 18, 2011) was a Zambian politician who was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD), defeating long-time President Kenneth Kaunda. He was re-elected in 1996. As he was unable to run for a third term in 2001, former Vice President Levy Mwanawasa instead ran as the MMD candidate and succeeded him. After leaving office, Chiluba was the subject of a long investigation and trial
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ticket to become President of the Republic of Macedonia a post that he held until May 2009. The Presidency was handed to Vlado Bučkovski, who was the party leader and Prime Minister until the 2006 Parliamentary elections. The SDSM is a member of the Progressive Alliance and an associate affiliate of the Party of European Socialists (PES). On 30 November 2005 one of the most prominent members of the SDSM, Tito Petkovski, who ran for president in 1999 and came in second place, left the party to form the New Social Democratic Party. This is the second major split from
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Alberta, including Jim Keegstra who had been accused of anti-Semitism. Sweigard, who described Keegstra as a "fine Christian gentleman", was elected interim leader by means of a telephone conference call of 17 party members, with 9 votes to 5 votes for party vice-president Richard Lawrence and three for Adrien Lambert. As leader, he ran in the 1984 election in Timiskaming, placing last with 151 votes. Nationally, under his leadership, the party suffered what was, at the time, its worst performance to date receiving only 16,659 votes nationwide. Sweigard attempted to win the leadership on a permanent basis at the party's
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Léon Angor Léon Angor (born July 13, 1928) was a Congolese politician and trade union leader. He was a leader of the CASL trade union centre. He was the president of the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo between 1964 and 1966. Angor was identified as part of the pro-China wing of the ruling National Movement of the Revolution. Under Angor's aegis, the Congolese Trade Union Confederation was formed in March 1964. In May 1966 Angor ran for re-election for the presidency of the National Assembly, but was defeated. It was speculated that this election marked a defeat
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the literature works of Karl Marx and socialist texts brought to jail by Victor L. Berger. After Debs got out of jail, he merged the ARU with the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth to form the Social Democracy of America (SDA). In 1900, Elliott ran for Congressman in Montana and Debs ran for President heading the SDA ticket. Elliott was later elected to the Montana Legislature while Debs ran unsuccessfully four more times for the presidency as a socialist. American Railway Union The American Railway Union (ARU) was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of
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speech to the Conference as ANC leader he pledged to stamp out corruption. Ramaphosa has long been considered a potential presidential candidate and ran in the 1997 ANC Presidential election, losing to Thabo Mbeki. Ramaphosa announced that he would seek the ANC Presidency in 2017, with his second run for President. Ramaphosa launched his campaign slogan as #CR17 Siyavuma. By August 2017, Ramaphosa had received the endorsement of the trade union COSATU, the National Union of Mineworkers as well as the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and Gauteng provincial ANC leadership. Individuals who also stepped forward to support Ramaphosa include education
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Union collapsed, and Yelstin became the leader of the new Russia. The 1992 Fourth of July Reception was not attended by Boris Yeltsin, but it was attended by Mikhail Gorbachev, who no longer had a job. The occupant of Spaso House, Ambassador Robert Strauss, had a new title; he was the last Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the first Ambassador to the Russian Federation. In the years following the breakup of the Soviet Union, President Bill Clinton visited Moscow four times, and each time was a guest of Spaso House. On March 24, 2002, President George W. Bush also
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Davor Bernardić Davor Bernardić (born 5 January 1980) is a Croatian physicist and politician who has been the president of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and Leader of the Opposition since 26 November 2016. He had previously served as one of four SDP Vice-presidents, leader of the SDP's Zagreb branch and president of the SDP Youth Forum. Bernardić has been elected to the Croatian Parliament four times, representing the 1st electoral district. Davor Bernardić was born in Zagreb on 5 January 1980 to civil servant Damir and nurse Dragica (née Tešo) Bernardić. His grandfather's brother from the fathers
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26 January 2006, though on 5 February, Hemi Doron and Eliezer Sandberg left the new party to establish National Home. Poraz tried to set up Hetz as a new party in January 2006; however, it was too late to register a new party for the election. He tried to form a union with Tafnit, which rejected it. Eventually the party ran with the minor Citizen and State party, which was re-branded as Hetz for the elections. Lapid was presented as the honorary leader. However, a combination of the split with Shinui (who also ran in the elections with Levintal as
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push the boundaries of what many considered appropriate behavior for trade union leaders in one other important area. He visited the Soviet Union three times, twice during his tenure as IAM president (1983 and 1986) and again in 1989, just after his retirement. He met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and engaged in at least one face to face meeting and question and answer session with Soviet factory workers. He was positive and hopeful about the changes taking place in the Soviet Union and critical of others, including other union leaders, who made negative comments about the USSR but never
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appointed Senator Eduardo Duhalde, a more traditional Peronist than Menem had been. Acquainted with Massa through Restaurant Workers' Union leader Luis Barrionuevo, Duhalde appointed Massa Director of the ANSeS (Argentina's Social Security administration). The pragmatic Massa ran on President Néstor Kirchner's center-left Front for Victory ticket during the 2005 legislative elections. Securing a seat in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Congress), he forfeited it at the behest of the President, who requested that he stay on as Director of ANSeS. Remaining at the post two more years, he oversaw the voluntary conversion of several million private pension accounts
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Teamsters members in the past decade. In mid-October 1990, McCarthy, suffering from health problems and losing support within the union for his handling of various contract negotiations, announced he would not seek a full term as Teamsters president. Endorsed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a member-led reform caucus, Carey ran for General President on a pledge to eliminate corruption and organized crime's influence in the union. Utilizing TDU's national mailing list, he raised $200,000 in mostly small contributions from Teamsters members and criss-crossed the country by car to meet with the union's membership. The December 1991 election was
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of the 20th century (the other being Teamsters for a Democratic Union). New Directions leader Jerry Tucker, then Assistant Director of UAW Region 5, ran for office against Region 5 Director Ken Worley in 1986 and lost by two-tenths of a vote in the closest election in union history. Five days into his candidacy, Tucker was fired for disobeying a UAW rule which required staff to take a leave of absence at least 90 days before an election date. Bieber openly supported Worley, and Tucker's supporters alleged that the UAW hierarchy had illegally expended union funds in support of Worley's
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Andy Stern Andrew L. "Andy" Stern (born November 22, 1950) is the former president of the then 2.2.million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He is now President Emeritus of SEIU, which grew by more than 1.2 million workers during his tenure. Called a "courageous, visionary leader who charted a bold new course for American unionism," Stern has been featured on "60 Minutes" and CNN, as Fox News Power Player of the Week and on the covers of the "New York Times Magazine", "Fortune", and "Businessweek". Under Stern's leadership SEIU became the largest union in the AFL-CIO, and the fastest
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America nominee union leader Eugene V. Debs. Wilson won Montana by a margin of 6.87 percent. 1912 United States presidential election in Montana The 1912 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 5, 1912. This was the first time that Arizona and New Mexico took part in a presidential election having been admitted to the Union earlier in the year. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This election was a four-way contest. Montana voted for the Democratic nominee New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson over the Progressive
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1940 United States presidential election in Vermont The 1940 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States Presidential Election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of Indiana, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Willkie's running mate was Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, while Roosevelt ran with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
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1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts The 1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose seventeen representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of Indiana. Roosevelt ran with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, while Willkie’s running mate was Senate Minority Leader Charles L.
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faced both the highest and then the lowest approval ratings for a Constitutional President in recent times. Mejía's first presidential campaign in 2000 won him the first Dominican presidency under then new electoral rules that required a "50 más 1" (50 percent plus one of the total votes in order to win in the first voting round.) This was in stark contrast to the late PRD leader, José Francisco Peña Gómez, who unsuccessfully ran for office three times consecutively (1990, 1994 and 1996) and never received the support that Mejia received in his first attempt. While holding the seat of
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defeated by William Green, a member of the United Mine Workers and a man generally considered subservient to Woll and Lewis. Duncan died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, on September 14, 1928. James Duncan (union leader) James Duncan (May 5, 1857 – September 14, 1928) was a Scottish American union leader, and president of the Granite Cutters' International Association from 1885 until his death in 1928. He was an influential member of the American labor movement, helping to co-found the American Federation of Labor. Duncan was born on May 5, 1857, in Portlethen, Kincardineshire in Scotland. His parents were
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James Duncan (union leader) James Duncan (May 5, 1857 – September 14, 1928) was a Scottish American union leader, and president of the Granite Cutters' International Association from 1885 until his death in 1928. He was an influential member of the American labor movement, helping to co-found the American Federation of Labor. Duncan was born on May 5, 1857, in Portlethen, Kincardineshire in Scotland. His parents were David and Mary (Forbes) Duncan. His father was a farmer, and David was raised Presbyterian. He attended public elementary school in Aberdeen, then apprenticed as a granite cutter. In 1873, Duncan became a
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within the new party. The former leader of Democratic Force, François Bayrou became the natural leader of the New UDF. He conceived of it as the embryo of a future centrist party which would include politicians from both the left and right. Bayrou ran for president in the 2002 presidential election, but some UDF leaders supported Chirac. Chirac won reelection comfortably, with Bayrou being eliminated after the first round, having gained only 6.8% of the vote. Bayrou subsequently refused Chirac's invitation to his group, to join the newly forimed centre-right catch-all party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) for
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the most appropriate manner, adding that social democrats should stand for solidarity, human dignity and equality "which are the values on which Christian doctrine in based." He pilgrimages to Marija Bistrica. Davor Bernardić Davor Bernardić (born 5 January 1980) is a Croatian physicist and politician who has been the president of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and Leader of the Opposition since 26 November 2016. He had previously served as one of four SDP Vice-presidents, leader of the SDP's Zagreb branch and president of the SDP Youth Forum. Bernardić has been elected to the Croatian Parliament four times,
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than budgets, items related to the administration of municipalities, special messages from the Governor, and other emergency items in the second year of their two-year session. He ran in 1968 for an open Senate seat, but lost in the primary. He ran again in 1972, but was unsuccessful. Rosen was invited to President Eisenhower's first inauguration in 1953. He was a leader of a slate of candidates, aligned with Governor John A. Volpe, who were not elected to attend to 1968 Republican National Convention, but did eventually attend three times. He supported Gerald Ford in the 1976 convention. In 1980,
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Bērziņš returned to politics in 2005, when he unsuccessfully ran for the office of Mayor of Riga as the leader of the Union of Greens and Farmers party list. From 2006 to 2010 he served as the president of the Latvian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and was also Latvenergo's board chairman (until 2009). In 2010 Andris Bērziņš was elected deputy of the Saeima from the slate of candidates presented by the Union of Greens and Farmers. On 23 May 2011 Andris Bērzinš was nominated as a presidential candidate by five Union of Greens and Farmers deputies. In the first
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caucused with the Democrats, allowing them to regain the majority. He was due to become majority leader again in early 2003 after Republican gains in the November 2002 elections. Lott spoke on December 5, 2002, at the 100th birthday party of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a retiring Republican Senator who, like Lott, had switched parties from the Democrats decades earlier. Thurmond had run for President of the United States in 1948 on the Dixiecrat (or States' Rights Democratic) ticket. Lott said: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the
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Minister and more liberal conservative Andrzej Olechowski, who won support from voters who were discontented with both of the other main candidates and in particular younger voters, businessmen and intellectuals. Candidates seen as having less of a chance included Andrzej Lepper, a populist farmers leader who opposed entry into the European Union and former president Lech Wałęsa. Wałęsa was rejected as the candidate for the Solidarity party he had won the presidency for, and thus ran separately in the election. In order to be elected in the first round a candidate had to gain over 50% of the vote. If
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and helped each other during difficult times. When Quezon was elected president in 1935, he entered Malacañang for the first time with Morato and Manuel L. "Nonong" Quezon, Jr. And thereafter, Morato was one of the very few people who could enter Malacañang at all times, even staying overnight in some often cases. Quezon himself urged Morato to enter politics, so he ran as Mayor of Calauag and won with ease. At his second term, Quezon invited him to help build a new city, a city that would later be known as Quezon City. Morato was a leader full of
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he said, included Dale Zysman, vice-president of Local 5 of the Teachers Union, teachers Henry L. Klein and Emil Morais of Brooklyn College, Philip and Jack Foner of the CUNY history faculty, and two well-known Communists who were not teachers, Anna Rochester and Henry Aptheker, as well as Canning himself. Another paper reported that "Dale Zysman," vice president of the Teachers Union, asserted that he knew of a 'dozen or so' high school teachers who have been subpenaed by the committee and the latter group confirmed that a number of such Instructors had already testified as to conditions in their
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Durai Ramasamy D. Ramasamy is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He joined the congress under the then mass leader K. Kamaraj. He rose to power steadily being the Vellakovil Panchayat board president for a period of 10 yrs and then the union chairman for 15 yrs and member of Legislative Assembly 5 times. When the Congress split in Tamil Nadu he joined the NCO under K. Kamaraj. After Kamaraj's sudden demise he, along with G. Moopanar, pulled the party together and merged it with Indira Congress. But in spite of this he
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Abdoulaye Wade Abdoulaye Wade (born 29 May 1926) is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term. Wade was born in Kébémer, Senegal; officially, he was born in 1926, although
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running for president's position: Ivica Jurjević, president of HDZ Founders' Club "Dr. Franjo Tuđman" and Vinko Vukadin, media advisor of HDZ. Elections in the Croatian Democratic Union Since its founding in 1989, elections within the Croatian Democratic Union were held numerous times. The Croatian Democratic Union controversial 2002 leadership election was held on 21 April 2002. Besides the incumbent party leader and former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, two other candidates were running: Ivić Pašalić, former advisor of Croatian President Tuđman and Maja Freundlich, journalist and vice-president of CDU. Ivo Sanader won the elections with 51 percent of the votes, Ivić
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Yugoslavia in the coalition government from 1999 to 2000. Nikolić was the Radical Party's deputy leader from 2003, and he briefly served as the President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2007. In 2008 he resigned following a disagreement with party leader Vojislav Šešelj regarding Serbia's relations with the European Union, as Nikolić became in favor of Serbia's accession to the EU, a move that was staunchly opposed by Šešelj and his faction. Nikolić formed the Serbian Progressive Party, which several SRS members joined. Nikolić ran for the President of Yugoslavia in the 2000 elections and was placed third.
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28%. She faced Adam Norwood, the Libertarian nominee, in the general election, whom she defeated in a landslide with 81% of the vote. Gibson was re-elected without opposition in 2004, and in 2006, was challenged in the Democratic primary by Fullwood, who had defeated her when she ran for the City Council in 1999. The "Florida Times-Union" endorsed Gibson for re-election, praising her as "a strong leader who deserves more time in office," noting, "Gibson has shown an ability to get things done without membership in the majority party." Ultimately, Gibson won renomination, scoring 57% of the vote to Fullwood's
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poor health. He stood down from the Board of Guardians in 1924, and suffered a series of strokes. Over the next few years, he ran a new tobacconist business and served as a magistrate but, by the mid-1930s, he was confined to bed, ultimately dying in 1941. Frederick James Dean Frederick James Dean (5 November 1868 – 24 April 1941) was a British trade union leader. Born in Walsall, Dean's father was Benjamin Dean, a coal miner who later became leader of the Pelsall District Miners' Association. Frederick was educated at the Butts School before completing an apprenticeship making horse
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a strong union. But in November 2001, Ron Gettelfinger announced he was a candidate for president of the union, and King ran for re-election on Gettelfinger's slate. Gettelfinger announced in March 2009 that he would not seek a third term as UAW president, leading some news outlets to declare King one of his possible successors. Shortly thereafter, King began stepping up his criticism of the three largest American automakers. He had particularly harsh words for General Motors, because it took aid from the federal government and yet still closed plants and because it said it would import vehicles from overseas
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America nominee union leader Eugene V. Debs. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a margin of 4.04 percent. , this is the last election in which Wayne County, Snyder County, and Union County did not vote for the Republican candidate. 1912 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania The 1912 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 5, 1912. This was the first time that Arizona and New Mexico took part in a presidential election having been admitted to the Union earlier in the year. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and
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non-union mines to flood the market for coal. During Penna's presidency, membership in the Mine Workers plummented from 13,000 to 9,700, and the union's treasury dropped from $2,600 to $600. Penna suspended union operations, stopped publishing the union newsletter and ceased paying per capita dues to the AFL. Penna did not run for re-election. His successor was Michael Ratchford. Phil Penna Phil Penna (November 1857 – 5 January 1939) was an American labor leader, and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from 1895 to 1896. John McBride, president of UMWA, had won election as president of the
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Legislative Session are: Anthony Verrelli Anthony S. Verrelli is an American carpenter, union leader and Democratic Party politician who represents the 15th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously a member of the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Verrelli was sworn into office on August 5, 2018, to succeed Reed Gusciora, who left office after being sworn in to serve as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey. Born in Trenton, he grew up in Lawrence Township where he attended Notre Dame High School. He became a carpenter and active union member, eventually becoming President of Carpenters Local Union
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Anthony Verrelli Anthony S. Verrelli is an American carpenter, union leader and Democratic Party politician who represents the 15th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously a member of the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Verrelli was sworn into office on August 5, 2018, to succeed Reed Gusciora, who left office after being sworn in to serve as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey. Born in Trenton, he grew up in Lawrence Township where he attended Notre Dame High School. He became a carpenter and active union member, eventually becoming President of Carpenters Local Union 254. He has
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board. (The Teachers Union and the Teachers Guild of New York reformed in 1960 as the United Federation of Teachers.) According to Harvey Klehr, "The American Federation of Teachers' Local 5 in New York, the union's largest affiliate, was [Communist] Party stronghold. Its vice president, Dale Zysman, was a Communist who used the pen name of Jack Hardy." Klehr also mentions that Bella Dodd was a close associate. In Dodd's memoir, she states: "We had one man in the [Teachers] Union who was so talented that he was regarded as the Stalin of the Union -- Dale Zysman, also known
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Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois. While working there Hare served as a union leader and was President of UNITE HERE Local 617. He served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1969 to 1975. Hare began his political career in 1980 when he ran as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in support of the presidential candidacy of Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. He was one of six candidates running for alternate delegate but the three Kennedy delegates were defeated by the three candidates supporting President Jimmy Carter. In 1982 Hare left his union position to help his
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William Linegar William L. Linegar (1871 – 1951) was a cooper, union leader and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's West in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1924 to 1928. Linegar was born in St. John's. Sometime after 1906, he became president of the Cooper's Union. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly as a Workingmen's Party candidate in 1919. He was defeated in a subsequent by-election and again in 1923 before being elected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative. In 1928, Linegar was named to the Board of Liquor Control. He became president of the
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running it from 1911 to his death in 1922. It was sold to R.B. Vail, a former manager at the Western Newspaper Union in July 1922. The following year Vail would go on to buy the Atmore Record. In 1927, he was elected president of the Alabama Press Association. The Times was acquired in 1936 by James W. Faulkner, a recent college graduate who later ran for Governor, and served both in the Alabama Senate and as mayor of Baldwin. Faulkner expanded his holdings in 1947 when he bought the Monroe Journal from A.C. Lee (Harper Lee's father) for fifteen
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Bokaro Steel Worker's Union (BSWU) Bokaro Steel Worker's Union is a union of workers of Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand. It was founded by Veteran Trade Unionist and former Chief Minister of Undivided Bihar Bindeshwari Dubey in the year 1963, of which he was its first President. Later he made INTUC President Michael John its president and he himself became its secretary. It is affiliated to ITUC affiliated Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). Bindeshwari Dubey was the tallest leader of Bokaro Steel Worker's Union. He was 6 times MLA, one time Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP
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Milo Reno Milo Reno (January 5, 1866 - May 5, 1936) was president of the Iowa Farmers' Union from 1921 to 1930 and the leader of the Farmers' Holiday Association, a populist organization established in 1932. He was born in Wapello County, Iowa. He died in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, of a heart attack following influenza. Reno grew up in Iowa, in a family influenced by Populist politics. Reno was involved in organizing famers. In 1918, he joined the Iowa Farmer Union and in 1921, he was elected its president. He called for better prices for farmers and public works programs,
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José Antonio Kast José Antonio Kast Rist (born in Santiago, 18 January 1966) is a Chilean lawyer and politician of German heritage who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing District 24 of Peñalolén and La Reina. He was a member of the Independent Democrat Union until 2016, and now he is an independent politician. Kast ran for president as an independent candidate in the 2017 election, and since 2018 is the leader of the far-right movement Republican Action ("Acción Republicana"). His parents were Michael Kast Schindele and Olga Rist Hagspiel, German immigrants from Bavaria who after
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leader of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. Shaukat Ali Yousafzai Shaukat Ali Yousafzai is a Pakistani politician who served as the Member of the 10th Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly representing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and as Minister for Health and Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Pervez Khattak administration. He also serves as the Secretary General of its provincial chapter of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and previously has served as the political advisor to Imran Khan. Yousafzai is a senior journalist and a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He remained the president of Khyber Union of Journalist for three times. He is a Chief Editor of Daily Surkhab
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Edward Pegge Dr. Edward Vernon Pegge (5 June 1864 − 21 March 1915) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath Rugby Football Club, international rugby for Wales and later became a vice-president of the Welsh Rugby Union. Pegge had an eccentric personality that made him a stand-out character of early Welsh rugby. Pegge was born in Briton Ferry in 1864, to Charles and Catherine Pegge. His father was originally from Wokingham in England, but moved to Wales where he ran and lived at Vernon House, the last privately owned asylum in Wales. Pegge followed
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he received 27,100 votes. Milan Paroški Milan Paroški (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Парошки; born 5 March 1957) is a Serbian writer and former politician. He held a speech at the 9 March 1991 protest in Belgrade. Paroški advocated that the FR Yugoslavia recognize the Republic of Serbian Krajina and was leader of the Serbian Chetnik Movement in 1993. He ran for president of Serbia as candidate of the People's Party and the Serbian Opposition in the 1992 Serbian general election where he received 147,693 votes. He ran for president once again (also as candidate of the People's Party) in the 1997
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Milan Paroški Milan Paroški (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Парошки; born 5 March 1957) is a Serbian writer and former politician. He held a speech at the 9 March 1991 protest in Belgrade. Paroški advocated that the FR Yugoslavia recognize the Republic of Serbian Krajina and was leader of the Serbian Chetnik Movement in 1993. He ran for president of Serbia as candidate of the People's Party and the Serbian Opposition in the 1992 Serbian general election where he received 147,693 votes. He ran for president once again (also as candidate of the People's Party) in the 1997 Serbian general election where
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meeting of the two governments in Concarneau the next day. The declaration immediately succeeded in its goal of encouraging Reynaud, who saw the union as the only alternative to surrender and who could now cite the British rejection of the armistice. Other French leaders were less enthusiastic, however. At the 5 p.m. cabinet meeting, many called it a British "last minute plan" to steal its colonies, and said that "be[ing] a Nazi province" was preferable to becoming a British dominion. Philippe Pétain, a leader of the pro-armistice group, called union "fusion with a corpse". While President Albert Lebrun and some
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Federation, as it was a republic of the Soviet Union, and became part of the Russian Empire in 1801. In 2003, the Rose Revolution forced Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to resign from office. Shevardnadze had been the leader of the Georgian Communist Party when Georgia was one of the republics of the Soviet Union, and Shevardnadze led Georgia for most of its first decade of independence. Shevardnadze's successor, Mikheil Saakashvili, pursued closer relations with the West. Under President George W. Bush, the United States sought to invite Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. However, Georgia's potential membership in NATO ran into
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"economy" was spoken 7 different times and Iraq was mentioned twice. One of the most frequently used words in his speech was "terror". The speech lasted 48 minutes and applause broke out 76 different times. At the time of the speech, President Bush had an 80% approval rating. Representative Richard Dick Gephardt (D-MO), the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives at the time, gave the Democratic response to President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. In his response, the Congressman from Missouri argued the importance of unity among the parties during the difficult times the country was facing.
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in 1984, when he defeated incumbent San Juan District 5 Rep. Jorge Navarro-Alicea, he was reelected in 1988, defeated in 1992 and made a comeback in 2000, becoming the House's Majority Leader in 2001. He is the only political figure to have defeated Kenneth McClintock, who ran against him for the House District 5 seat in 1988 and later went on to become president of the Senate of Puerto Rico. Governor Anibal Acevedo Vilá nominated him to head the Puerto Rico Public Service Commission from 2004 to 2008. On November 26, 2008, he was tapped by McClintock's successor, incoming Senate
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Is a Many Splendored Thing". Greenhouse served as AFTRA' New York branch president for five terms, and on the Screen Actors Guild's National Board from 1981-87. For her union service she was awarded the Founder's Award, the Ken Harvey Award and the George Heller Gold Card. Martha Greenhouse Martha Miriam Greenhouse (June 14, 1921 – January 5, 2013) was an American stage, film and television actress, who also served as an actors' union leader. The Omaha, Nebraska-born actress spent her formative years in New York City, and was a 1939 graduate of the acclaimed Hunter College High School. She appeared
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Library, Cornell University. "Israel Breslow, Labor Leader Who Led Jewish Organization." "The New York Times". 31 Jul. 1985. Israel Breslow Israel Breslow (1906 in Ukraine – July 28, 1985 in New York City) was a garment worker, local union manager, union staffer, and Vice-President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). Israel Breslow was born in the Ukraine, emigrated to Canada, and settled in New York City where he had a long career with the ILGWU. Breslow was a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America from 1922 to 1936 while working in Canada. In 1936, after moving
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the RFU. Tom Berry (rugby union) Joseph Thomas Wade Berry known as Tom Berry (17 July 1911 – 1 July 1993) was a rugby union player and administrator who appeared in 277 games for Leicester Tigers between 1932–1948, and three times for in 1939. He was President of the Rugby Football Union for the 1968–69 season, the first person from Leicester Tigers to hold the position and was also tour manager of England's first over-seas tour in 1963. Berry made his Leicester Tigers debut on 5 March 1932 against Harlequins at Welford Road, Berry played No. 8 and scored a
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Tom Berry (rugby union) Joseph Thomas Wade Berry known as Tom Berry (17 July 1911 – 1 July 1993) was a rugby union player and administrator who appeared in 277 games for Leicester Tigers between 1932–1948, and three times for in 1939. He was President of the Rugby Football Union for the 1968–69 season, the first person from Leicester Tigers to hold the position and was also tour manager of England's first over-seas tour in 1963. Berry made his Leicester Tigers debut on 5 March 1932 against Harlequins at Welford Road, Berry played No. 8 and scored a try as
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second place with 4.88% of the popular vote. At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party won 4 seats. Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (, UNIR / PS) is a political party in Burkina Faso. The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara. The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both the late President Thomas Sankara and the party's current leader. The party subscribes to Sankarism. At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three
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Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (, UNIR / PS) is a political party in Burkina Faso. The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara. The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both the late President Thomas Sankara and the party's current leader. The party subscribes to Sankarism. At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara took
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had a good relationship with Loret de Mola. During his government faced several times with President Luis Echeverría, the Governor of Campeche, Carlos Sansores Pérez and the political leader in Yucatán, Víctor Cervera. The killing of a labor lawyer and independent trade union leader, Efrain Calderón Lara (a) "El Charras", accused police officers contaminated by the Governor of Campeche, Sansores Pérez shook his government while his six-year term was finished even with the recognition of those who had been their adversaries. Read what he said in "Diario de Yucatán" who questioned him at the beginning of his administration. He subsequently
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Hampshire primary on February 9. Christie endorsed Donald Trump on February 26, 2016. and began campaigning for him. Following the announcement the publisher of the "New Hampshire Union Leader", which had endorsed Christie, said that Christie had committed to him that he would never endorse Trump. A few days later the paper ran an editorial which stated that it had been wrong to endorse Christie. Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman, a major contributor who served in the role of National Finance Co-Chair for Christie's ill-fated campaign, called the endorsement "an astonishing display of political opportunism." "The New York Times" called
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In 1983 he was 3rd place in the European cup 100metres in London. In 1985 he was European 60 metre silver medalist behind Mike McFarlane of the U.K. Antoine Richard Antoine Richard (born 8 September 1960) is a former athlete from France who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He was French 100 metre champion on 5 occasions, and also 200 metre winner in 1985. He also won the French 60 metres title 5 times as well. He competed for France at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union where he ran in the 100 metres where he
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Antoine Richard Antoine Richard (born 8 September 1960) is a former athlete from France who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He was French 100 metre champion on 5 occasions, and also 200 metre winner in 1985. He also won the French 60 metres title 5 times as well. He competed for France at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union where he ran in the 100 metres where he reached the Quarter final, but he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates Pascal Barré, Patrick Barré and Hermann Panzo.
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John Sheridan (Babylon 5) John J. Sheridan is a lead character in the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series "Babylon 5", played by Bruce Boxleitner. For most of the series, he is the commander of the Babylon 5 station; during the series' final season he is the President of the Interstellar Alliance. John Sheridan is incorruptible. He is also a dynamic, idealistic, and charismatic leader who can inspire fierce loyalty in his subordinates. However, Sheridan is shown at times to be reckless and stubborn, and like his second-in-command Susan Ivanova he possesses a fierce temper that can lead to
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John Sheridan (Babylon 5) John J. Sheridan is a lead character in the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series "Babylon 5", played by Bruce Boxleitner. For most of the series, he is the commander of the Babylon 5 station; during the series' final season he is the President of the Interstellar Alliance. John Sheridan is incorruptible. He is also a dynamic, idealistic, and charismatic leader who can inspire fierce loyalty in his subordinates. However, Sheridan is shown at times to be reckless and stubborn, and like his second-in-command Susan Ivanova he possesses a fierce temper that can lead to
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Cooper's Union again in 1938. William Linegar William L. Linegar (1871 – 1951) was a cooper, union leader and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's West in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1924 to 1928. Linegar was born in St. John's. Sometime after 1906, he became president of the Cooper's Union. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly as a Workingmen's Party candidate in 1919. He was defeated in a subsequent by-election and again in 1923 before being elected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative. In 1928, Linegar was named to the Board of Liquor Control.
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municipality of Algonquin Highlands, plus the entire municipality of Cavan-Monaghan. It therefore is now identical to the federal riding by the same name. On February 4, 2009, a writ was issued for a by-election to be held on March 5, 2009. The by-election was called to fill the seat vacated by Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament Laurie Scott, who quit so that PC leader John Tory could seek a seat in the legislature. Rick Johnson, who ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in 2007 after he resigned as president of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association to run against
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1995, and the 74-year-old Cordtz was elected president the same day to serve out his unexpired term (which ended in April 1996). Cordtz immediately announced that he would run in April 1996 for a full four-year term as SEIU president, but he ran into significant opposition from reformers in the union who felt he was too close to the "old guard" — white, male, highly paid, double-dipping officials who ran the union in an autocratic fashion. John Sweeney, who had once said he would not support electing anyone over the age of 70 to the SEIU presidency, reversed his position
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Sardinian Democratic Union The Sardinian Democratic Union – Nationalist Project ("Unione Democratica Sarda – Progetto Nazionalitario", UDS) is a regionalist Christian-democratic political party in Sardinia. Its leader is Mario Floris, a former Christian Democrat who was President of the Region from 1999 to 2001. The party was founded in 1998 as Sardinian section of Democratic Union for the Republic of Francesco Cossiga, a Sardinian who had been Prime Minister and President of Italy. In the 1999 regional election Floris won 6.2% as candidate for president, while the party won 4.1% and three regional councillors. In the 2004 regional election the
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Leszek Miller, he signed the Accession Treaty that paved way to Polish membership in the European Union. Cimoszewicz returned to politics during the 2007 parliamentary election, when he won a Senate seat as an independent candidate. He kept his senator's seat until the end of term in 2015. Since 2015 Cimoszewicz is workstream leader for the Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine (AMU), where he is responsible for combatting corruption. On 28 June 2005, Cimoszewicz declared his intent to run for Polish President (see: Election 2005). He instantly became a leader in the polls. He ran previously in 1990 and
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Ohio Board of Education from 1993 to 1998. Oliver Ocasek Oliver Robert Ocasek (November 2, 1925 – June 25, 1999) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as President of the Ohio State Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. After the Democrats lost their majority in the Senate, Ocasek was replaced as party leader by Harry Meshel. In 1962 and 1968, Ocasek ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. He lost both times to Republican incumbent William H. Ayres. In 1986 he lost a Democratic primary for congress in the 14th district to
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Oliver Ocasek Oliver Robert Ocasek (November 2, 1925 – June 25, 1999) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as President of the Ohio State Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. After the Democrats lost their majority in the Senate, Ocasek was replaced as party leader by Harry Meshel. In 1962 and 1968, Ocasek ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. He lost both times to Republican incumbent William H. Ayres. In 1986 he lost a Democratic primary for congress in the 14th district to Thomas C. Sawyer. Ocasek also served on the
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number of Chairmen from 2 to 1. Khajimba again ran for President in 2011, after the death of President Sergei Bagapsh. His running mate was Svetlana Jergenia, widow of first President Vladislav Ardzinba. The pair was first nominated by an initiative group on 28 June and then by the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia on 16 July. They received the additional support of Akhatsa (5 July), Aruaa (7 July), former Prime Minister and 2004 Presidential candidate Anri Jergenia (27 July) and the Union of the Cossacks of Abkhazia (5 August). The pair scored a 19.82% third place, losing
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the Times" (Australia/New Zealand version), two religious papers of the church. His truth was soon accepted by Edward Hare and his wife, who ran the boarding house in which he stayed. His success caused the Seventh-day Adventist church in America to send Arthur G. Daniells, an evangelist and former teacher, to further the work. Daniells' preaching soon paved way for the first Seventh-day Adventist church in New Zealand was opened in Ponsonby (a suburb of Auckland), on 15 October 1887. Daniells later became the world president of the church. The union operates 6 educational facilities in New Zealand and the
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Ron Carey (labor leader) Ronald Robert Carey (March 22, 1936 – December 11, 2008) was an American labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. He was the first Teamster General President elected by a direct vote of the membership. He ran for re-election in 1996 and won, but in 1997 federal investigators discovered that the Carey campaign had engaged in an illegal donation kickback scheme to raise more than $700,000 for the 1996 re-election effort. His re-election was overturned, Carey was disqualified from running for Teamsters president again, and he was
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than two years of his new 5-year term, as he died on 10 December 1999, resulting in early elections being called for January 2000. Vlatko Pavletić assumed the post of Acting President as the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament. 1997 Croatian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 15 June 1997. They were the second presidential elections held since independence in 1991. The result was a victory for incumbent president Franjo Tuđman, the leader of the Croatian Democratic Union party (HDZ), who received 61.40% of the vote and was re-elected to a second five year term. As Tuđman
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and spent six months in prison. He became Prime Minister on 13 August 1990 but resigned on 22 November 1991. After Armenia gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, he was elected in parliament three times and ran unsuccessfully for President of Armenia in 1996, 1998 and 2003. Vazgen Manukyan is the Chairman of National Democratic Union party. It has been alleged that the September 1996 presidential election was rigged to ensure a first round victory for President Levon Ter-Petrossian so that he would not have to face Manukyan in a second round. In the February 2008 presidential
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ran as Hussey and Gillingham, becoming Gillingham & Co. when Hussey retired in 1922. They were responsible for printing The Southern Cross from 1890. He was for some time President of the Master Printers Association. He married Kate Young Cooke ( – 30 November 1931) on 20 August 1877. Joseph Williams Gillingham (c. 1859 – 6 December 1943), his partner, was the second son of Rev. J. Gillingham, of Strathablyn. He was a founder of South Australian Literary Societies' Union, serving as Secretary and President at various times, and as Speaker of its Union Parliament. He represented the South Australian
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Elections in the Croatian Democratic Union Since its founding in 1989, elections within the Croatian Democratic Union were held numerous times. The Croatian Democratic Union controversial 2002 leadership election was held on 21 April 2002. Besides the incumbent party leader and former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, two other candidates were running: Ivić Pašalić, former advisor of Croatian President Tuđman and Maja Freundlich, journalist and vice-president of CDU. Ivo Sanader won the elections with 51 percent of the votes, Ivić Pašalić finished second with 47 percent of votes, and Maja Freundlich was last, with 2 percent. The Croatian Democratic Union 2012
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are pigs who eat shit!...I will put you in jail!... People will kill you!!! People hate you!!!" In September 2012 Asanga Seneviratne, an ally of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, bought a 72% stake in "The Sunday Leader" and its sister newspaper the "Iruresa". Seneviratne is managing director of Asia Fort Asset Management (Pvt) Ltd and vice president of Sri Lanka Cricket. He is also president of Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union and controversially appointed President Rajapaksa's son Yoshitha Rajapaksa as captain of the Sri Lanka national rugby union team. "The Sunday Leader" had published a number of reports exposing Seneviratne's property
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1996 Russian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. The result was a victory for the incumbent President Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent. Yeltsin defeated Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the run-off, receiving 54.4% of the vote. His inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August. In 1991 Boris Yeltsin was elected to a 5-year term as President of Russia, which was still a part of the Soviet Union at the time. The next election was scheduled be held sometime in 1996. In late December 1991 Russia
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1996 Russian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. The result was a victory for the incumbent President Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent. Yeltsin defeated Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the run-off, receiving 54.4% of the vote. His inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August. In 1991 Boris Yeltsin was elected to a 5-year term as President of Russia, which was still a part of the Soviet Union at the time. The next election was scheduled be held sometime in 1996. In late December 1991 Russia
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of parliamentary leader of the official opposition from 2004 to 2007. She ended her political career as an MNA as the house leader of the second opposition group after the elections of 2007. In 2008, she worked in the private sector, where she became vice president for business development at Vision Globale, a Quebec company in the film and TV industry. A year later, she returned to public service, joining the ranks of Union Montréal, the political party of the mayor in office, Gérald Tremblay. She ran for borough councillor in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, but her bid was unsuccessful. She then held
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to 1970, State Senator from 1971 to 1980 and as the 45th Lieutenant Governor, serving under Robert D. Orr from 1980 to 1988. He ran for Indiana State Treasurer in 1970, but lost the general election. Mutz was defeated by Evan Bayh in the 1988 race for Indiana Governor. John Mutz John Massie Mutz (born November 5, 1935) is an American business leader and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Republican candidate for Governor and president of Lilly Endowment, one of America's largest family foundations. Born in Indianapolis, Mutz is a graduate of Northwestern University, earning both a
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National Union of Students. In September 2000 she unsuccessfully ran for President of the Australian National University Students' Association, as the leader of a combined Democrat/Liberal election ticket. Dundas worked as an organiser for the Community and Public Sector Union for several months in 2001, before gaining the top position on the Democrat ticket for the seat of Ginninderra in the ACT Legislative Assembly. She was subsequently elected, defeating conservative independent Dave Rugendyke. This made her the youngest woman elected to an Australian parliament, as well as the first Democrat to be elected in the ACT. Once elected to the
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elections under the leadership of Roberto Jordán Pando. It did very poorly at the polls. As for the MIR (the UDP's other main component group), it ran in the 1985 elections under its own name and finished third. Its leader, Paz Zamora, went on to be elected president in 1989. The UDP was never resuscitated again, but remains a powerful symbol of the early phase of democratic consolidation (1977–84), when it was Bolivia's most popular party. Democratic and Popular Union The Democratic and Popular Union (Spanish: "Unidad Democrática y Popular") (1977–84) was a Bolivian umbrella political alliance uniting various smaller
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