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Christian Schwarz-SchillingIn 1982 he was appointed Federal Minister for Post and Communication, in the first cabinet Kohl.
Rafael EdriRe-elected again in 1988, Edri was appointed both Minister without Portfolio in the national unity government of 1988.
Yonez? MaedaMaeda subsequent was appointed Minister of Commerce and Industry under the Inukai administration in 1931.
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of SwintonSo as to balance the Cabinet Cunliffe-Lister was replaced at the Board of Trade by the supposed Free Trader Walter Runciman, and instead became Secretary of State for the Colonies, which he would hold until 1935.
Ahmed Gamal El DinIn 2011, he was named as deputy minister for general security and head of public security by former interior minister Mansour El Esawy and continued to serve at both posts during the tenure of Mohamed Ibrahim, the next interior minister.
Lutfi al-HaffarAl-Haffar joined Ahmad Nami's cabinet as minister of public works and economy in April 1926, but resigned two months later in protest of French interference.
Andreas BlunckAfter the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of March 1920, Blunck became justice minister in the government of Hermann Müller (SPD).
Suranjit SenguptaOn 17 April 2012, Suranjit Sengupta was appointed minister without portfolio one day after submitting his resignation as Railways Minister and after being accused of bribery.
Jeanne DambendzetShe was subsequently moved to the post of Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies on 30 December 2007.
P. K. van der BylHe handed over power to his African successor on 1 June 1979, and became instead Minister of Transport and Power and Minister of Posts in the new government.
Sergei IvanovOn 15 February 2007, Ivanov resigned as defence minister following his elevation to the post of deputy prime minister.
Ehud BarakWhen Shimon Peres formed a new government following Rabin's assassination in November 1995, Barak was made Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995 -- 96).
George Mallet Mallet continued in his role as Minister for Trade, Industry and Tourism until a few months after independence in 1979, when the United Workers Party (UWP) was defeated in national elections by the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP.
Raymond MarcellinAfter December 1952, and the fall of the government of Antoine Pinay, Raymond Marcellin no longer held cabinet positions.
Norbert DarabosSince 11 January 2007, he is Minister of National Defence first in the Gusenbauer cabinet, then in the Faymann cabinet.
Patrick McGilligan In 1948 McGilligan was appointed Minister for Finance in the first Inter-Party Government.
Joke SchauvliegeIn July 2009 she took office as Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture in the Flemish Cabinet Peeters II.
Luigi PellouxIn July 1896 he resumed the portfolio of war in the Rudinì cabinet, and was appointed senator.
Orlando LetelierDuring 1973, Letelier was recalled to Chile and served successively as minister of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Defense.
Birger BergersenHe served until April 1960, remaining in the post well into the Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet.
Aristide BriandConsequently he accepted the portfolio of Public Instruction and Worship in the Sarrien ministry (1906).
L?o Richer Lafl?cheThis same fall, Prime minister Mackenzie King named him Minister of National War Services, a post he kept until he became the first Canadian ambassador to Greece on April 17, 1945.
Tharman ShanmugaratnamIn May 2006, he was also appointed to the post of Second Minister for Finance.
Jan Kees de Jager On 23 February 2010 following the resignation of Wouter Bos, and with him all the Labour Party members from the Cabinet Balkenende IV, De Jager became Minister of Finance.
Ugo La MalfaAsked again in 1973 by Mariano Rumor's fourth government he accepted the job of Minister of the Treasury.
Job Cohen On 2 July 1993, Cohen became State Secretary (deputy minister) for Education and Sciences in the third cabinet of Ruud Lubbers, under education minister Jo Ritzen.
Emmerson MnangagwaFollowing Mugabe's victory in the July 2013 presidential election, he moved Mnangagwa to the post of Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs on 10 September 2013.
Fran?ois IboviIbovi was eventually replaced as Minister of Territorial Administration by Raymond Mboulou in the government named on 30 December 2007.
Idriss NgariHe was later moved to the post of Minister of Tourism and National Parks on 29 December 2007 and was simultaneously reduced to the rank of ordinary minister.
Morarji DesaiDesai served as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance minister of India in the Indira Gandhi government until 1969 when Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi without consulting him took away the finance portfolio from him.
Jagdish TytlerHe was re-elected in 1991 and served as the Union Minister of State for Surface Transport.
Patrick ChinamasaFollowing Mugabe's victory in the July 2013 presidential election, he moved Chinamasa to the post of Minister of Finance on 10 September 2013.
RainilaiarivonyIn March 1876, Rainilaiarivony established eight cabinet ministries to manage foreign affairs, the interior, education, war, justice, commerce and industry, finance, and legislation.
Martha KaruaIn the grand coalition Cabinet that was announced on 13 April 2008, Karua remained in her post as Minister of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs.
Emil FeyHe once again joined the Schuschnigg cabinet as Minister for Interior until his final disempowerment in 1935, shunt off to the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft.
Mareks Segli??In 2007 he became interior minister in Ivars Godmanis' cabinet.
Gr?goire OwonaFollowing Biya's victory in the October 2011 presidential election, he moved Owona to the post of Minister of Labor and Social Security on 9 December 2011.
Haim RamonIn January 2005, the Labor Party entered the government of Ariel Sharon and Ramon became Minister without Portfolio responsible for Jerusalem Affairs, departing in November 2005 with the other Labor ministers.
Konstantinos KoumoundourosInitially a supporter of Theodoros Deligiannis, under whom he served as Minister for Naval Affairs in 1890 -- 92, Koumoundouros quarrelled with Deligiannis and went over to his rival, Charilaos Trikoupis.
Laurent EssoEsso remained Director of the Civil Cabinet for seven years ; he was then appointed as Minister of Justice in the government named on September 19, 1996.
Abdullah Ahmad BadawiDuring the Cabinet reshuffle in 1991, Mahathir brought him back into the Cabinet as Foreign Minister.
Johan CastbergHowever, in January 1913 he was again given a cabinet position, this time as Minister of Trade, Shipping and Industry in the second cabinet Knudsen.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf He became the head of the Water and Power Ministry in the coalition government of PPP, PML-N, ANP, JUI-F and MQM formed after the 2008 elections.
Farzana RajaWhereas in 2012 she was appointed a Federal Minister in the Gillani cabinet and was later retained as Federal Minister without portfolio in charge of the Benazir Income Support Programme under Raja Pervez Ashraf's government.
Dame Mary CookCook became Navy Minister in Billy Hughes' government in 1917.
Tissa Wijeyeratne Maurice Schumann French Foreign Minister (right) Georges Pompidou | Georges Pompidou French President (center) and Maurice Schumann French Foreign Minister (right) Tissa Wijeyeratne returned from France in 1974 and was appointed as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence and Senior Advisor (Foreign Affairs) to the Prime Minister, where he was largely responsible for foreign affairs.
Pierre FriedenHe returned to his post as Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the government of Joseph Bech, who became Prime Minister after Pierre Dupong's death in 1953.
Nagoum YamassoumAfter serving as President of the Constitutional Council, he was named Prime Minister of Chad on December 13, 1999 ; he had also previously served as Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
Mohammad SafadiSafadi has been serving as the minister of finance since 13 June 2011 in the cabinet led by prime minister Mikati.
Yoshihide Sugais a Japan ese politician who had served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in the cabinet of Shinzō Abe until August 2007.
Karl ErjavecAfter the parliamentary election of 2008, the party entered the left wing government coalition of Borut Pahor, and Erjavec was named Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning.
Arun JaitleyHe was elevated as a Cabinet Minister in November 2000 and was made simultaneously the Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs and Shipping.
Ovidiu Ioan SilaghiA member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he became Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises in the second Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet (April 5, 2007).
Muhammad FneishFneish served as minister of labour in the next cabinet headed again by Siniora which was formed in 2008.
Hikmat Abu ZaydOn 29 September 1962, Abu Zayd was named minister of social affairs in Ali Sabri's first government.
Shah A M S KibriaAfter the general election on June 12, 1996, Kibria joined the cabinet of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as Minister of Finance.
Jacques ChiracOn 27 February 1974, after the resignation of Raymond Marcellin, Chirac was appointed Minister of the Interior.
Alexandros SakellariouIn the succeeding cabinet of Themistoklis Sofoulis, he was once again Minister for Naval Affairs (until 18 November 1948).
Achike UdenwaIn December 2008, President Umaru Yar' Adua appointed him Minister of Commerce and Industry.
David GraiverHe served as policy advisor to Economy Minister José Ber Gelbard following elections in 1973 that returned the Justicialist Party to power.
Waldemar KraftAfter the elections in 1953 he retired on 20 October 1953 from the State Government and was appointed on the same day as the Federal Minister without Portfolio under government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn.
Charles DausabeaOn 5 May 2006, following riots which forced Prime Minister Snyder Rini to resign, new Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare appointed Dausabea as Minister for Police and National Security.
Walid JumblattJumblatt served as minister of public works, of transport and of tourism in the National Unity cabinet led by then prime minister Rashid Karami, which was formed in May 1984.
Zacharie Mybotoand he held that post until February 1990, when he was instead appointed as Minister of Public Works, Equipment, Construction, and Urban and Regional Planning.
George Cave, 1st Viscount CaveIn 1922, he became Lord Chancellor in Bonar Law's government, and again served in this capacity in Baldwin's first administration.
Charbel Nahas In November 2009, Nahas was appointed minister of telecommunications in the government headed by Saad Hariri.
Aharon ZislingFollowing Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in David Ben-Gurion's provisional government.
Joice Mujuru At independence in 1980, Mujuru became the youngest cabinet minister in Mugabe's cabinet, taking the portfolio of sports, youth and recreation.
Jelle ZijlstraZijlstra dual served as Minister of Finance leading the Cabinet Zijlstra until April 5, 1967 when the Cabinet De Jong was installed.
Erich Koch-WeserIn 1928, Koch-Weser became Minister of Justice in the new government of Hermann Müller.
Pedro Bordaberry Bordaberry served as the Tourism minister in the government of President Jorge Batlle until 2005.
Fakhrul Islam AlamgirA cabinet reshuffle later named him Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, where he served until the BNP government left office in October 2006.
Hafizullah AminAmin succeeded in appointing two more of his allies to important positions ; Mohammad Sediq Alemyar as Minister of Planning and Khayal Mohammad Katawazi as Minister of Information and Culture ; and Faqir Mohammad Faqir was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in April 1978.
Pierre-Jules HetzelHetzel was a well-known republican, and in 1848 he became chief of cabinet for Alphonse de Lamartine (then minister of Foreign Affairs), and afterward for the minister of the Navy.
Francesco RutelliIn 2006 he was named Minister of Welfare and Cultural Activities in the of cabinet of Romano Prodi during Prodi's second term as Italian Prime Minister.
Nawaf MassalhaHe became the first Muslim Arab to hold a ministerial position in the Israeli government when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992.
Heitar? InagakiHe supported efforts to join with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a coalition government in 1949, and became the final Minster of Commerce and Industry and first Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under the 3rd Shigeru Yoshida administration.
Hitoshi AshidaAshida was elected president of the new party, and became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1947 under Socialist prime minister Tetsu Katayama.
Sadeque Hossain KhokaAfter Bangladesh Nationalist Party's utmost victory in 2001, Khoka was made Cabinet Minister of Fisheries and Livestock.
Soenario On 30 July 1953, Soenario was appointed minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of the prime minister Ali Sastroamidjojo.
Kigoshi YasutsunaIn January 1913, he became Minister of War under the First Yamamoto Gonnohyoe cabinet.
Gianni VernettiIn 2006 he was elected to the Senate of the Republic, and after the center-left coalition won the general election he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Prodi government.
John Lawson (Australian politician)Upon Lyons' death in 1939, Menzies, as the new Prime Minister, was able to reward Lawson's devotion by appointing him minister for trade and customs.
Mitsumasa Yonai Yonai became full admiral in April 1937 and Navy Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Senjūrō Hayashi in 1937.
Oscar Bardi de FourtouHe was minister of religion in the cabinet of May 18 -- 24, 1873, being the only member of the Right included by Thiers in that short-lived ministry.
Adhir Ranjan ChowdhuryOn October 28, 2012 he was inducted in the Union Ministry under Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh as Minister of State for Railways.
Saad Hayel Srour Srour joined the government of Samir Rifai as Interior Minister on 24 November 2010, he replaced Nayef Qadi in a cabinet reshuffle.
Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon On 21 September 1942, the Regent Miklós Horthy, offered General Nagy the portfolio of the Minister of Defense.
Ram Vilas PaswanPaswan was re-elected to the 9th Lok Sabha in 1989 and was appointed Union Minister of Labour and Welfare in the Vishwanath Pratap Singh government.
Ahmed MekkiIn a reshuffle of May 2013, Ahmed Sulaiman was appointed minister of justice, succeeding Mekki in the post.
Zoran ThalerIn January 1995, he was nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia in the government of Janez Drnovšek, after Lojze Peterle of the Slovene Christian Democrats had resigned.
U. Krishna RaoFrom 1952 to 54, he served as the minister in charge of Industries, Labour, Motor Transport, Railways, Posts, Telegraphs and Civil Avaiation in the cabinet of C. Rajagopalachari.
Michael SarrisSarris was reappointed Minister of Finance by President Nicos Anastasiades on 28 February 2013.
Sarat Chandra BoseIn 1946, he was appointed Member of the Interim Government for Works, Mines and Powers -- the position of a minister in a national executive council led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and presided over by the Viceroy of India.
Tove StrandHowever, its successor lasted only one year, and Strand returned in 1990 as Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour in the third cabinet Brundtland.
MoeljatnoMoeljatno resigned as Minister of Justice on 9 January 1957, and when the cabinet fell in mid-March, the bill was dropped.
Genki AbeIn 1945, towards the closing stages of World War II, Abe was made Home Minister under the Suzuki Kantarō administration and President of the Cabinet Planning Board.
Hamada MadiAfter the return of Azali to the presidency in May 2002, Hamada Madi was kept on as special advisor without portfolio with Union cabinet status.
Kij?r? Shidehara In 1924, Shidehara became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Katō Takaaki and continued in this post under Prime Ministers Wakatsuki Reijirō and Osachi Hamaguchi.
Sergio MattarellaIn 1999 he became Defense Minister and kept this position under Giuliano Amato second government.