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Governorship and Administration in Historical Context

This quiz explores the roles and historical context of governors and administrative positions across various empires and territories.

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1 Emperors Diocletian (see ________) and Constantine in the third and fourth centuries AD carried out a root and branch reorganisation of the administration with two main features:

2 In some minor overseas territories, instead of a Governor, there is an Administrator or ________, or the job is ex officio done by a High Commissioner.

3 In ________, each of the ten provinces has a Governor, appointed by the regional government.

4 As for the three territories, they are headed by a ________ and are appointed by the Prime Minister.

5 These were governed by a Governor and ________ respectively.

6 colonial ________ (not the Ambassadors exchanged within the Commonwealth)

7 The whole (or most) of Egypt was repeatedly reduced to the status of province of a larger empire under foreign conquerors, notably under an Achaemenid ________ (see below).

8 The Governor is usually placed second in the provincial power hierarchy, below the Secretary of the provincial ________ (CPC) committee (省委书记), who serves as the highest ranking Party official in the Province.

9 Each state governor is appointed by the ________ on the advice of the Premier who is the political chief executive of the state government (until 1986, they were appointed by the Queen of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Government).

10 the ________ dynasty dispensed with the office after Shapur I (who had still 7 of them), replacing them with petty vassal rulers, known as shahdars

💡 Interesting Facts

  • William Burnet, Governor of New Jersey and New York, obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter.
  • Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency.
  • Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima, Brazil.
  • A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991.
  • as governor of Davao del Norte, Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998.
  • the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, which is located in the Moti Shahi Mahal in Ahmedabad, was built by Emperor Shahjahan and was formerly the residence of the Governor of Gujarat.
  • the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia.
  • the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock.
  • Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War.
  • Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940.
  • Winnfield, home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors, Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen, were born there.
  • Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona.
  • Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking.
  • Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary.
  • Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India, Timor, Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire.
  • Gustav Adolf von Götzen, a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa, was the first European to set foot in Rwanda.
  • Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate.
  • Francis Nicholson served as colonial governor or acting colonial governor of Nova Scotia, the Province of New York, the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Maryland and the Province of South Carolina at various times during his career.
  • Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia, a region of Ukraine.
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