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Example sentences for "first governor"

  • Her possessions west of Lake Michigan had been reorganized as a new territory of Wisconsin, with a capital temporarily at Belmont, where Henry Dodge, first governor, took possession in the fall of 1836.

  • Stevens, bound for his post as first governor of Washington territory, conducted a line of survey to the Pacific between the parallels of 47 deg.

  • Then they elected John Carver their first governor.

  • Langer defeats Welford for governorship, first Governor of any State elected in the individual column of ballot.

  • Dwight, head of a large bonanza farm company organized here in 1879, and was the home of John Miller, first Governor of North Dakota.

  • Sir Edmund Andross was appointed the first governor general, and arrived at Boston in December, 1686.

  • Entered the army; came to Prince Edward Island in 1770 as first governor of the colony.

  • They were placed under the charge of Miles McDonnell, who received a joint appointment from Selkirk and the Company, as first Governor of the new colony.

  • He was a brother of Miles McDonnell, Lord Selkirk's first governor of the Red River Settlement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    century after; first call; first child; first communion; first company; first floor; first formed; first journey; first landing; first lesson; first love; first loved; first meridian; first message; first page; first part; first play; first prince; first printed; first reading; first sergeant; first session; first stone; first winter; respectable family; upright stones