Elected

Examples

• The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A Chicago regiment, the 19th infantry, had elected a very young man to the colonelcy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You'd never get elected, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then reckoned democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These had elected their officers from highest to lowest and were accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The day after his return, he was elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania a delegate to Congress. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Davy was elected President of the Royal Society in 1820, and retained that dignity till he felt compelled by ill health to relinquish it in 18 27. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Its system of government may be best described as republican with a king, an elected life-president. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I stand here, it would seem, an elected king; this hand is about to grasp a sceptre; these brows feel in each nerve the coming diadem. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Clemenceau was elected President of the Conference. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• General Taylor was nominated in 1848, and was elected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The company was raised and the officers and non-commissioned officers elected before the meeting adjourned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was to be re-elected or replaced at the end of ten years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The political state of England became agitated as the time drew near when the new Protector was to be elected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That means a good deal more than that elected officials must rule for the majority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Marshall Lefferts was elected president. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The moment Adrian should be legally elected his deputy, he would escape to safety. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The German Diet was like the States-General or like a parliament without the presence of elected representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There an assembly of Mongol leaders elected Ogdai Khan, the son of Jengis, as his successor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were no newspapers,[242] and there was practically no use of elected representatives in the popular assemblies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He retired from academic life, and was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey in 1910. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• During his absence he had been annually elected member of the Assembly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Each king was separately elected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And it added to her misfortunes that some of her elected kings had been brilliant and aggressive rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then oligarchy, or the form of government in which the rulers are elected for their wealth, may now be dismissed. Plato. The Republic.
• He was shortly after chosen a member of the supreme executive council for the city, and soon after was elected president of the same. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Constitution is or was a moderate despotism, tempered by a Chamber that might or might not be elected. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I wanted, as between these candidates, to see Mr. Lincoln elected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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