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Example sentences for "became president"

  • Until he became president he was a close friend of Santana.

  • Morales, on entering Santo Domingo, became president of the provisional government.

  • Martin Van Buren, both before and after he became President of the United States, was called a fox, because of his great slyness and shrewdness in pulling the wires for the Democratic party.

  • He became President of the Constituent Assembly, and was a Theophilantrophist.

  • Became president of International Congress of Students, '84, and represented Young Belgium at the funeral of Victor Hugo.

  • He became President of the Senate, '14-16.

  • When he became President, his instinctive commitment to the necessity of being prepared had been stoutly reinforced by his experience in what he called "the war of America the Unready.

  • Even after he became President, Roosevelt liked to box, until an accident, of which for many years only his intimate friends were aware, convinced him of the unwisdom of the game for a man of his age and optical disabilities.

  • It is not known that our chieftain had any experience as a civilian until he became President, nor does any partisan attribute to him that double culture which in Antiquity made the same man soldier and statesman.

  • Under the influence of the principles of the old Democratic Party Mr. Johnson advanced to the Vice-Presidency, and while under the influence of the same idea he became President.

  • When he became President, he was an opponent of negro suffrage.

  • In 1843 he became President of the Board of Trade.

  • In 1836 he became president of the council, but in August of the same year he resigned office, and became the leader of the opposition.

  • He never, after he became President, played cards or billiards, nor did he read anything except the Daily Globe and his private correspondence.

  • Hence he recommended to Washington the etiquette of a court, and kept it up himself when he became president.

  • Some excellent writers of history think that the glory of Adams was brightest in the period before he became president, when he was a diplomatist,--that as president he made great mistakes, and had no marked executive ability.

  • In 1851 he became president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  • Under the Consulate he became president of the court of appeal and later minister at Copenhaaen.

  • Royal Historical Society; and in 1881 he became president of the Royal Geographical Society.

  • It was largely through your efforts that I became president, and I am greatly indebted to you for my renomination.

  • This brought him in close contact with the people and was of invaluable benefit to him when he became president of a great railroad corporation.

  • He was also director of a quicksilver mine, and in 1855 he became president of the Pacific & Atlantic railway.

  • After having been an official in the household of Frederick, prince of Wales, the earl was made master of the buckhounds, and in 1748 he became president of the Board of Trade.

  • Subsequently he became president of the Mechanics' Institute in Boston, and also of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • In 1804 he became president of a Salem insurance company.

  • He opposed the acquisition by the United States of the Philippine Islands, became president of the Anti-Imperialistic League, and was a presidential elector on the Bryan (Democratic) ticket in 1900.

  • None of his public acts, either before or after he became President, exhibits any special tenderness for the African race, or any extraordinary commiseration of their lot.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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