A government administrator

Usage examples of commissioner.

But before leaving York, Adams had been told by Elbridge Gerry that he was to be appointed a commissioner to France, in place of Silas Deane, who was being recalled to answer charges of questionable conduct.

On November 27, Congress named Adams a commissioner to work with Franklin and Arthur Lee in negotiating a French alliance.

However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.

He saw the futility and unnecessary expense of having three commissioners, and after six weeks in Paris, as early as May 21, he was writing to Samuel Adams to say that one commissioner, Franklin, would be quite enough.

They had met earlier at Passy, corresponded over naval matters, and Jones, quite unjustly, had decided that Adams, in his role as commissioner, was conspiring against him.

As secretary for the American commissioners, Franklin had selected his grandson, William Temple Franklin, a decision that did not please Adams, who thought John Thaxter better qualified.

He had been appointed by Congress to join the commissioners, Franklin and Adams, in Paris.

The two commissioners and a few workers at hand comprised the welcoming committee for the arrival of John Adams, the first President to occupy what only much later would become known as the White House.

At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.

Commissioner of Grants for the WSF, who was influential in getting the Archaeopteryx funded.

When Weston handed Kelford the list and explained that it contained names of persons taken in a raid at the Century Casino, Kelford gave the commissioner a contemptuous stare and turned back toward the billiard room.

Every time Cardona showed up with a new report, the commissioner shouted for Kelford, and thereby gained a respite from the clicking of the billiard balls.

The commissioner had been mentally beefing over that point, until he suddenly remembered that the Cobalt Club was no longer a haven of restfulness since Marvin Kelford had taken permanent possession of the billiard room.

In May, 1537, the royal commissioners once more attended at the Charterhouse, when they found the majority of its inmates prepared to take the oath prescribed.

The Chicagoan, June 8 Front Page by Ralph Buncomb, staff writer CHICAGO--Repercussions from the Westside Development scandal reached city hall yesterday, as Planning Commissioner J.