In 1983, Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.
In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
The ministers will remain in their positions until a successor is elected the following week.
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After all we in Britain elected the redoubtable Margaret Thatcher three times as prime minister.
In Wisconsin, voters elected the country's first openly gay U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin.
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John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth president in 1824, was the son of John Adams, the second president.
Real Madrid was elected the best club of the 20th century and has been doing really well recently.
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We elected the politicians who subsidized the housing bubble, and decided which firms should live and which should die.
On 3 May last year, voters elected the mayor and London Assembly Members.
Mr Arafat had recently been elected the Palestinians' president with a massive majority.
He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in democratic elections in 1994.
Until 2012, it was parliament that elected the president for a five-year term.
Theophilos III, originally from Messini in Greece, was elected the 140th Patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine on 22 August.
An ardent advocate for Israel's security and for peace, Shimon Peres was elected the ninth President of Israel in 2007.
Mr Obama was elected the first black US president on Tuesday with a resounding win over Republican rival John McCain.
Mr Dixon was elected on the South Wales Central regional list and Mr Roberts was elected for the North Wales region.
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He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009.
Euphoria swept across Sub-Saharan Africa when Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States in 2008.
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The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today.
But the museums have a friend in Schumer, a Finance Committee member who was just elected the third-ranking member of the Democratic leadership.
The national transitional council in the Central African Republic has elected the rebel leader who seized power last month, Michel Djotodia, as interim president.
For some reasons, she's elected the president and she's doing right, the people in other countries will say, well, it's because of her husband.
Ms. Dlamini-Zuma was elected the AU's new chairwoman Sunday in the fourth round of voting by AU member countries gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected the first woman President of Africa in 2006, taking over a war-torn country and an economy in ruin.
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Until 2012, the parliament elected the president for a five-year term.
One of the great privileges of my career is that I was elected the same year that Sam Nunn was, in 1972, to the United States Senate.
The new Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who was elected the new chair of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers on Monday, is supportive of the measure.
He was elected to the City Council in 1966 and two years later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for nine years.
And this is, as you heard the two gentlemen before me say, President Karzai is the elected -- the duly elected leader of the sovereign country of Afghanistan.
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