Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
...post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, vacated by the resignation of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when he attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the Governorship of New York, President Coolidge appointed Theodore Douglas Robinson, son of the first T. R.'s sister and cousin of T. R. Jr. T. (D.) R. was State Senator in New York in 1916-18, 1920-24. He is the fourth member of the Roosevelt family to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Clarence C. Morley to the Governorship in Colorado...
...Paulen to the Governorship of Kansas...
Edward Jackson to the Governorship of Indiana...