The former governor of the National Bank, Mugur Isărescu, eventually replaced Radu Vasile as head of the government.

Those hopes shot up when Georgia's former Democratic governor Zell Miller was named to replace Senator Paul Coverdell, a Republican, who died last month.

The governor imposed a hiring freeze a year ago, but the administration acknowledged that the governor hired 15 new people in his own office and replaced 16 more.

The new governors replaced Sarratea with the Oriental José Rondeau, who had good relations with Artigas.

Under his rule, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania slowly became more centralized, as the governors loyal to Vytautas replaced local princes with dynastic ties to the throne.

The governor had replaced the old alii aimokus of the islands, but sovereignty remained with the king.

The governor replaced him with a Democratic elector.

And the most outlandish scenarios still have not come to pass: a governor abruptly replaced by a Senate president of the opposite party, for instance.

Shortly after taking office, the next governor must replace Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz, who will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 next October.

Two years later, in 1864, the provincial governor dismissed the Liberal Executive Council and replaced them with a government led by Gray.