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The governor is inaugurated on the third Tuesday of January every four years along with the lieutenant governor, and serves a term of four years. Prior to the present laws, in 1845, the state's first constitution established the office of governor, serving a term of two years, but no more than four years of every six. [5]
When Clements left office for good at the end of his second term in 1991, his eight years in office were the most served by any Texas governor until Rick Perry surpassed his total in 2009. Clements was the first governor to be elected to multiple terms since Texas changed its constitution in 1972 to extend its governor's term of office to four ...
Governor: Took office: Left office: Notes: Domingo Terán de los Ríos: January 23, 1691 March 5, 1692 Official governor; previously served as governor of Sonora y Sinaloa (1681–1686), New Spain. Gregorio de Salinas Varona: 1692 1697 (Texas) / 1698 (Coahuila) Official governor; subsequently governed Nuevo León (1705–1707) and Honduras ...
In preparation for anticipated statehood, the Texas gubernatorial election, 1845, elected Henderson as its first governor. He took office on February 19, 1846. He took office on February 19, 1846. When the Mexican–American War broke out in April of that year, Henderson took a leave of absence as governor to command a Texas volunteer cavalry ...
Bullington was a cousin of the first wife of John G. Tower, future U.S. Senator from Texas. He fared more strongly than most Texas Republican candidates did in that period, but did not match Butte's 1924 showing against Ferguson. [6] Ferguson's second term as governor was less controversial than her first.
After several miscellaneous postings within the CCS, Governor Gordon appointed him in 1890 as the first Archaeological Commissioner and Head of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon. Incidentally it was called a ‘Survey’ and not a department as the Government then believed that all items of archaeological interest could be completely surveyed ...
Sir John Anderson, GCMG, KCB, JP (23 January 1858 – 24 March 1918) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Straits Settlements between 1904 and 1911 and Governor of Ceylon between 1916 and 1918,. He was the first Governor of Ceylon to die in office.
List of governors of Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) British Ceylon. Governors of British Ceylon (1798–1948) Dominion of Ceylon. Governor-General of Ceylon (1948–1972)