Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, including the first chair whose height could be adjusted via a gas piston and spring, and a fold-up office table that replaced screws and plates with simple interlocking hinges.
From 1970 to 1973, Russell Train was the first chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of US President Richard Nixon, at the time when the World Heritage initiative was launched in a Presidential message in 1971.
He was the former chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee and is currently the First Vice-Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
In 2008 he became the first UNESCO Chair holder at Bradford University.
Elizabeth Dole, who did not make the list this year, is the first woman to chair the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
You saw in Admiral Mullen the first joint chair to openly -- active joint chair to openly call for its repeal.
Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.
One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
The spokesperson added that with stagnant growth in the UK economy, and the crisis in international financial markets, the First Minister would chair a meeting of the Council for Economic Renewal next week.
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Kennard, the first African-American to chair the FCC, doesn't shy from racial issues.
Ms Huws, the first commissioner, was previously chair of the board.
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It was the second time he had won the chair, the first time was at the Rhymney Valley eisteddfod in 1990.
In One57's den, it took five tries before the green lacquer was dark enough, and the first upholsterer working on a voluptuous chair in the living room quit because of the job's difficulty.
It was held with the participation of Mr. Douglas Tompkins, President of Foundation for Deep Ecology and Chair of the First Global Private Donor Forum, and Mr. Takuya Okada, Chairman of AEON Environmental Foundation, and called upon its participants to move forward towards private financial commitment for biodiversity conservation.
First, the Commission chair, Andrew Tyrie has the authority that comes from being elected to chair the Treasury Committee by the whole House of Commons - he's not an executive appointment who can be reined in by the whips.
The first woman to occupy the Speaker's chair was Betty Harvie Anderson (Conservative), appointed deputy chairman of the Ways and Means committee (a deputy speaker) in July 1970, taking the chair later that day during the Queen's Speech debate when she was addressed as 'Mr Deputy Speaker'.
The Director-General took advantage of the discussion to provide certain details about her imminent visit to the United States and also to announce that the decision had just been taken in New York that UNESCO would be responsible for the secretariat of the Education First initiative, which both the President and the Chair welcomed.
As for Song's first invention, the rocking chair stroller, it was a hit right from the start and remains Goodbaby's bestselling product in China.
The elected chair of this first session, Danielle Mazzonis, noted in her closing remarks that the Scientific Council is off to a good start and the Council affirmed its readiness to help the Office fine-tune its strategy for addressing the challenges in the region, taking into consideration the current financial constraints that UNESCO finds itself in.
The showboating side of Verdasco reappeared at the worst possible moment as he mishit an overhead from the baseline so badly that it hit the umpire's chair and Federer converted his first break point of the day to level the match.
Jeffords is the first senator not affiliated with the Democratic or Republican party to chair a Senate committee in 68 years.
Brazilians joke that public-sector workers turn up on the first day, hang their jackets on the back of the chair, and are never seen again.
The donation of the money helped to fund a new professorship called the Edward Stocks Massey chair of Electrotechnics, with Robert Beattie as the first holder.
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In Tuesday's Democratic primary in Washington, DC, Adrian Fenty, the young, successful first-term mayor, was improbably ousted by the chair of the city council, Vincent Gray.
He's been busy since January, when he first sat down in the executive chair in Trenton, N.
"At first, I thought the chair I was sitting on had a screw loose or something, " Osman said.
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If it goes ahead it will be the first partnership of its kind in the country, according to the Chair of the Devon and Somerset Fire Authority.
BBC: Somerset, Devon and Dorset fire services set to join forces
Today, visitors can tour the meticulously restored mansion, tour the four gardens, hike the nature trail or explore personal artifacts such as the first president's shoes or his favorite swivel chair in a vast state-of-the-art museum on the grounds.
In the health reform law that was enacted in 2010, Congress created a commission to develop the first-ever national prevention strategy, and named me to chair the commission.
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