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A charter member (US English) of an organization is an original member; that is, one who became a member when the organization received its charter. [2] A chartered member (British English) is a member who holds an individual chartered designation authorized under that organization's royal charter.
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In 1870, Coggeshall became a charter member and secretary of Iowa's Polk County Woman Suffrage Society [2] [4] and was later (1898) president of the Des Moines Equal Suffrage Club. [1] Her most influential suffrage activity, however, stemmed from her involvement with the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), of which she was a charter member. [4]
The Soviet Union was a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the Security Council.Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its UN seat was transferred to the Russian Federation, the continuator state of the USSR (see Succession, continuity and legacy of the Soviet Union).
At large (before a noun: at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset. In multi-hierarchical bodies, the term rarely extends to a tier beneath the highest division.
The forerunner of the NCAA, the IAAUS, was founded in 1905.At that time, the following 39 schools joined. [1]Allegheny College; Amherst College; Bucknell University; Colgate University
Chartered accountants were the first accountants to form a professional accounting body, initially established in Scotland in 1854.The Edinburgh Society of Accountants (1854), the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries (1854) and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants (1867) were each granted a royal charter almost from their inception. [1]
Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1742. A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company.