He served as a state councilor in 1799, 1800, and 1806.
He has been a parliament member from 1990-1996 and a state councilor since 2002.
He was again elected as state councilor and served from 1823 until his death.
In practice, a state councilor's portfolios can be very wide-ranging.
He was a State Councilor from 1796 until 1803.
He also appointed seven officers to be State Councilors during the 1840s and 1850s, and three others after that.
Mr. Tang has taken a new job overseeing foreign affairs as a state councilor.
Between 2000 and 2003 he was State Councilor.
In 1981, he became the Minister of National Defense, and became state councilor the following year.
Take a hypothetical case: I don't suppose that a niece of a state councilor would be very likely to fail the psycho tests.