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2008 Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States
2008 Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States 2008 Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected 2007 Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202 2006 Ban Ki-moon is elected to be U.N. Secretary-General 2006 Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea 2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California 2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate 1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. 1996 Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1994 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay 1994 Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) 1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil 1994 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi 1994 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau 1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan 1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia 1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 1994 Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic 1994 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama 1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan 1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1994 Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica 1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland 1994 Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1993 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1993 Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela 1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ 1993 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem 1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City 1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia 1993 New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame 1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala 1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi 1993 Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey 1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel 1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame 1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate 1992 Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador 1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy 1992 John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner 1992 Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1991 Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner 1991 Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan 1991 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan 1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York 1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep 1991 New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame 1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR 1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation 1991 Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame 1991 Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president 1991 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame 1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try 1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala 1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti 1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland 1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic 1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss 1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada 1990 No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years 1990 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) 1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia 1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay 1989 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon 1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City 1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia) 1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va) 1989 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon 1989 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey 1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame 1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones and Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame 1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka 1988 Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico 1988 Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 1988 NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico 1988 Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%) 1988 Francois Mitterrand elected president of France 1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California 1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti 1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1987 Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe 1987 Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea 1987 Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame 1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women 1987 Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines 1987 Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria 1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia 1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown 1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California 1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame 1986 Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president 1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year 1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece 1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1985 Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president 1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) 1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame 1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky 1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia 1983 U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president 1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame 1983 Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany 1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president 1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico 1982 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador 1982 Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame 1982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta 1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica 1982 Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland 1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament 1982 Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame 1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia 1981 Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran 1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 1981 Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain 1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway 1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin 1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal 1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea 1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru 1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors 1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran 1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham 1979 Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II 1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama 1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy 1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel 1978 Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans 1977 Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond 1977 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame 1976 Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq 1976 Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International 1976 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame 1975 Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame 1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame 1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov 1974 Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day 1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame 1974 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame 1973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit 1973 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta 1973 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected 1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California 1973 Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death 1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame 1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1972 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame 1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 1971 Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt 1970 Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey 1970 Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame 1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany 1969 Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam 1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany 1969 Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1968 Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela 1968 Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey 1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon 1968 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal 1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1967 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio 1967 Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana 1967 Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate 1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C. 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1967 Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor 1966 Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate 1966 Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president 1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic 1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball 1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines 1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria 1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president 1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1964 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon 1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India 1964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) 1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina 1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya 1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame 1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously 1962 Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World 1962 Edward M. Kennedy 1st elected Senator 1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts 1962 Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame, elected 1986 1962 Antonio Segni elected president of Italy 1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies 1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor 1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil 1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot 1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus 1959 Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World 1959 Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany 1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR 1959 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1958 Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico 1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 1958 Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina 1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1957 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria 1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1956 Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1956 Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame 1955 G. Gronchi elected president of Italy 1954 Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman 1954 J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) 1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala 1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam 1953 Rene Coty elected President of France 1953 Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor 1953 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council 1953 Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary 1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel 1952 Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela 1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball 1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council 1951 Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala 1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France 1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1949 Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria 1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1948 Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea 1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1947 Vincent Aurial elected president of France 1946 Leon Blum elected French premier 1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria 1946 John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives 1946 Georges Bidault elected premier of France 1946 Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam 1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1945 Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame 1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East 1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters 1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president 1943 John Montagu, born in England, 11th Earl of Sandwich, elected as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, related to 4th Earl who popularized the sandwich 1942 William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago 1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House 1940 Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives 1939 Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1939 Albert Lebrun elected president of France 1939 Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame 1939 Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school 1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president 1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua 1936 Manuel Azana elected president of Spain 1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants 1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America 1934 Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) 1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time 1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) 1932 Samuel Rutherford, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. 1932 Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) 1931 Paul Doumer elected president of France 1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece 1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico 1928 MW Miklas elected president of Austria 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected president 1928 Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming) 1924 General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP 1924 Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier 1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC 1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI 1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected 1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda 1921 Hadjememaar, Corn de Gelder, elected in Amsterdam 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner 1920 Warren G. Harding elected president 1920 Warren Harding elected 29th president 1920 Alexander Millerand elected president of France 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia 1920 Paul Deschanel elected president of France 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 1916 Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative 1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK) 1913 Huerta elected president of Mexico 1913 Raymond Poincare elected president of France 1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China 1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal 1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan 1908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73 1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected New York Governor beats William Randolph Hearst 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1906 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X 1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X 1903 Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro, elected 1961 1899 Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet, Those not elected 1899 Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer, elected 1961 1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator 1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina 1895 G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer, elected 1958 1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960 1893 Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time 1892 Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag 1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president 1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC 1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention 1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected" 1883 George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee, elected 1961 1881 Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player, elected 1963 1880 James A. Garfield (R) elected president 1880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to U.S. Congress, Rep-Montana 1879 James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota 1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate 1875 Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1874 Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York 1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti 1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature 1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate 1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina 1871 Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931 1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee 1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps 1870 Samuel Rutherford, born in Culloden, Georgia, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms 1870 Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis 1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana) 1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress 1868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle 1868 Oscar J. Dunn, is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana 1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president 1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia 1861 Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America 1860 Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865 1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament 1858 Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature 1856 James Buchanan elected U.S. president 1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S. 1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California 1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1844 James K Polk elected 11th president of US 1840 William H Harrison elected president of US 1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society 1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas 1836 Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US 1826 Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist, dies 1820 James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president 1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1808 James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president 1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1796 John Adams elected president 1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" 1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) 1765 Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht 1720 Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor 1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII 1676 Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI 1670 Pope Clemens X elected 1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts 1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII 1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) 1619 Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor 1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V 1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX 1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII 1566 Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II 1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III 1534 Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III 1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) 1519 King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V 1503 Pope Julius II elected 1494 Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia 1484 Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII 1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) 1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege 1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV 1417 Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V 1406 Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII 1404 Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII 1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI 1362 Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V 1352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI 1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV 1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent 1305 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V 1294 Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V 1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV 1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV 1277 Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III 1276 John XXI elected Pope 1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V 1261 Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV 1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor 1243 Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV 1241 Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) 1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III 1168 Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope 1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope 1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III 1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II 1130 Pope Innocent II elected 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany 1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses) 1119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II 1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II 1105 Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I 1099 Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II 1058 Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X 1046 Pope Clement II, Suitger, elected 1045 Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III 1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III 999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope 973 Pope Benedictus VI elected 965 John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII 963 Leo VIII elected Pope 955 Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope 872 John VIII elected as Catholic Pope 816 Pope Stephen IV, V, elected to succeed Leo III 752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd) 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I 649 Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) 638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected 615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV 514 St. Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus 476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine 468 St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius 385 Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona 336 Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope 259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II |
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