officeholder

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The officeholder also leads the more than 6,000 members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

McOsker said with a laugh, although he did donate $1,000 from his officeholder committee account to each of the four candidates: Rodriguez, Baltazar, Erick R. Ojeda Garcia and Cindy Guerrero.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Chief Justice Debra Todd, the highest paid judicial officeholder, will see her salary rise to $260,733, while salaries for other high court justices will rise to $253,360.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023

A new LGBTQ+ resource center is set to open in the city, where an independent candidate surprisingly defeated a longtime Republican officeholder to become the first Black mayor of the city of roughly 480,000 people.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

If the officeholder had personal or political friends whom he desired to have recognized, an intimation of this desire was generally sufficient to have the pass privilege even extended to them.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William