Event class: minister, appointed, cabinet, state, government, became, secretary, shadow, affairs, election

Events with high posterior probability

Michael Crockart	Crockart was the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Michael Moore, the Scottish Secretary of State, but he quit in December 2010 to vote against the rise in tuition fees.
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos	Baroness Amos was made Leader of the House of Lords on 6 October 2003, following the death of Lord Williams of Mostyn, which meant that her tenure as Secretary of State for International Development lasted less than six months.
Mary Coughlan (politician)	Following the resignation of Mary Harney in January 2011, Coughlan was also appointed as Minister for Health and Children.
Nicola Roxon	In 2003, new leader Mark Latham appointed her shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on the Status of Women.
Pierre H. Vincent	In January 1993, Vincent was elevated to Prime Minister Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham	When Harold Wilson became Prime Minister in 1964, Stewart was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science.
Paul Gibson (politician)	Following union pressure for Gibson to be included in the NSW Ministry and Cabinet Premier Morris Iemma announced on 30 March 2007 that Gibson would become Minister for Sport, Minister for Western Sydney, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Roads (Road Safety).
Jack Wilkie-Jans	Since withdrawing his candidacy for the Local Government election in 2011 Jack remains an advocate for Aboriginal Affairs.
Gareth Bacon	Bacon was a key player in the team that secured a landslide victory for the Conservatives in the local elections of 2006, after which he was appointed Cabinet Member for the Environment.
John Shimmin	In 2005 he swapped departments with the Minister of Home Affairs Phil Braidwood.
George Chetwynd	After the 1959 general election, Chetwynd was made an opposition spokesman on Aviation.
Stuart Robert	Robert has been the Assistant Minister for Defence in the Abbott Government since 18 September 2013.
Ursula von der Leyen	In 2005 she was appointed Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Angela Merkel.
Donna Cansfield	She was reassigned as Minister of Transportation on 23 May 2006, when Duncan returned to Energy.
Ian Wilson (politician)	In 1982 he was shifted to Aboriginal Affairs, a notoriously unpopular portfolio in Liberal governments.
Christopher Pyne	In September 2010 he was re-appointed to Abbott's Shadow Ministry as Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training and Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives.
Emma Reynolds	In October 2011, Emma Reynolds was promoted by Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to the position of Shadow Europe Minister.
Nick Sherry	Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009, after serving as the first Australian Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law.
David Brand	In October 1949, Ross McLarty became Premier and Brand entered the Ministry as Minister for Housing, Forests and Local Government.
Mary Wallace	In February 2006 Wallace rejoined the junior ministerial team as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with special responsibility for Forestry.
Rob Moore (politician)	In February 2006, Moore was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
Gurbax Singh Malhi	In 2005, Gurbax Singh Malhi also acted as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal.
Eamonn Kissane	After Fianna Fáil's victory at the 1944 general election, Kissane was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach (Government Chief Whip) and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence.
Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead	In the 2009 cabinet reshuffle, Kinnock was appointed Minister for Europe following the resignation of Caroline Flint.
Tim Yeo	In 2004, Howard made Yeo the Shadow Secretary for the Environment and Transport.
William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire	Following the setting up of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition after the 2010 general election Wallace was appointed a Government Whip acting as government spokesperson in the House of Lords on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education.
Philip Hammond	Hammond became Secretary of State for Defence on 14 October 2011 when Liam Fox resigned.
Jacinta Collins	In 2003 Senator Collins was made the Shadow Minister for Children and Youth.
Tom Johnston (Scottish politician)	He was re-elected for Stirling and Clackmannan Western at the 1929 general election, when he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Scotland by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
David Parker (politician)	In July 2007 Clark appointed Parker as the acting Minister for the Environment following the resignation of David Benson-Pope.
Bill Rompkey	He was Minister of State for Transport in the short lived Cabinet of John Turner until the government's defeat in the 1984 election.
Iain Duncan Smith	On 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Duncan Smith to serve in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Yvonne Fritz	Following the election, she was appointed as Minister for Seniors and Community Supports, a position she held until 2006.
Warren Snowdon	On 14 September 2010, he gained the portfolio of Veterans' Affairs and regained Defence Science and Personnel, while losing responsibility for Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery, but retaining Indigenous Health.
Leonard Marchand	In 1976, Marchand was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of State for small business.
Brian Cowen	It came as a relief to Cowen when he vacated the Department for Health and Children on being appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in January 2000.
Michael Ronaldson	Ronaldson has been the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, and the Special Minister of State in the Abbott Government since 18 September 2013.
Esther McVey	In his 7 October 2013 reshuffle, David Cameron appointed her Minister of State for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions.
Mel Knight	When Ed Stelmach became Premier in December 2006, he named Knight to his cabinet as Energy Minister.
Marion Scrymgour	Scrymgour was promoted to the ministry under Clare Martin on 17 December 2003, as part of a reshuffle caused by the sacking of Health Minister Jane Aagaard.
Andrew Fraser (Queensland politician)	Furthermore, on the 26 March 2009, he was given an additional portfolio and appointed the Minister for Employment and Economic Development on top of already being State Treasurer.
Gulzar Singh Cheema	On January 20, 2004, he was appointed Minister of State for Immigration and Multicultural Services.
Norman Baker	He returned to the front bench in July 2007, when he was appointed as Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Sauveur Marcoux	After serving as a minister without portfolio for over twelve years (perhaps a Canadian record), Marcoux was promoted to Municipal Commissioner by Premier Douglas Campbell on December 14, 1948.
Eileen Desmond	At the 1981 general election, a Fine Gael -- Labour Party coalition came to power and Desmond was appointed Minister for Health and Social Welfare.
Tom Osborne (Canadian politician)	With the victory of the Progressive Conservatives in the 2003 election Premier Danny Williams appointed Osborne to Cabinet as the Minister responsible for Environment and Labour.
Hector Goudreau	After the election of 2008, Goudreau was named the Minister of Employment and Immigration.
Roger Maxwell	When the National Party won power in the 1990 election, Maxwell became the Minister of Business Development, the Associate Minister of Employment, and the Associate Minister of Immigration.
Jerry Ouellette	Since 2007, Ouellette has served as the Official Opposition Critic for both the Ministers of Northern Development and Mines, and Natural Resources.
Phil Woolas	Following the cabinet re-shuffle of 3 October 2008, he was made Minister of State for Borders and Immigration at the Home Office and Minister of State for the Treasury.
Ivan Lewis	However, in the October 2013 Shadow Cabinet reshuffle he was moved to the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Ed Komarnicki	In 2008 he returned to his previous file as the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources, Skills Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
Dennis Anderson (politician)	After the election he was appointed as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, holding that post until Ralph Klein became Premier in 1992.
Nick Minchin	Minchin was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1994 -- 96, holding the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, John Howard.
Eric Campbell Geddes	Until the bill for setting up this new office was passed in May 1919, he remained a member of the cabinet as Minister without Portfolio.
Charles Lapointe	When John Turner succeeded Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister in June 1984, he retained Lapointe as Minister of Supply and Services while giving him the additional portfolio of Minister of Public Works.
Lynch Maydon	Harold Macmillan brought him into government as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance from July 1962, where he served alongside Margaret Thatcher.
Stewart Maxwell	After the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, he became the Minister for Communities and Sport.
Jacqui Lait	A reshuffle after the 2005 general election saw her appointed as shadow Minister for London.
Wayne David	In 2005 he was appointed as the Team Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and then subsequently to the then Minister of State, Adam Ingram.
Rob Sampson	He was named a Minister without Portfolio in Mike Harris's government on 16 August 1996, with responsibility for privatization.
David Kemp (politician)	He was Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister Assisting the Minister for Finance for Privatisation 1996 -- 97.
Frank Arthur Calder	Calder was appointed cabinet member in Dave Barrett's government in 1972 and became BC's first aboriginal cabinet minister.
Joe Hockey	In September 2008 he became Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation.
Michel Daerden	After the elections of 1999 Daerden was elected to the Walloon Parliament and became Minister for Employment, Training and Housing in the Walloon Government.
Fran Logan	Following a reshuffle of the Ministry on 13 December 2006, he gained the Resources portfolio as well as Industry and Enterprise, whilst losing Science and Innovation to Alan Carpenter.
Susan Lawrence	Susan Lawrence was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the second minority Labour Government elected in 1929.
Clayton Cosgrove	At the October 2007 Cabinet reshuffle, he was promoted and replaced his his Building and Construction and Statistics portfolio responsibilities ; with the Immigration, Small Business, Sport and Recreation portfolios, and ministerial responsibility for the Rugby World Cup.
Dominic LeBlanc	On July 10, 2004, he was sworn-in as a Member of the Privy Council for Canada and appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Deputy Chief Government Whip.
John Richardson (Australian politician)	In 1982 he became Shadow Minister for Educational Services, but later that year was moved to Consumer Affairs, with the additional portfolio of Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition.
Robert Stout	On 25 July 1878, Stout was given the additional role of Minister of Lands and Immigration.
Fran?ois Gendron	When the Parti Québécois returned to power in 1994 with Jacques Parizeau as their leader, he was named Minister of Natural resources and the Deputy Government House Leader.
Bill Dooks	In 2009, he became the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Heritage and the Minister responsible for the Heritage Property Act.
Normand Cherry	He was appointed to the Bourassa ministry on October 11, 1989, serving as the junior minister responsible for cultural communities.
Ben Bradshaw	After the 2001 general election Bradshaw entered Tony Blair's government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Ruby Dhalla	In January 2009, Ignatieff appointed Dhalla as the Liberal critic for Youth and Multiculturalism.
Joe Walsh (Irish politician)	In spite of this he was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food when Haughey returned as Taoiseach after the 1987 general election.
David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral	In government he served as a whip and junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, who made him Secretary of State for Wales in 1990, shortly before her resignation later that year.
Barry O'Farrell	In a further Shadow Cabinet reshuffle on 4 January 2002, O'Farrell lost Information Technology and became Shadow Minister for Innovation.
John Lloyd Waddy	Waddy's position was changed to Minister for Youth and Community Services in January 1973.
Hilary Benn	Whilst Benn proposed to scrap the'' best before'' date altogether, others proposed enhancing the validity date with other solutions such as time temperature indicator s. Benn briefly served as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2010 during Harriet Harman's interim leadership of the Labour Party.
Derek Conway	Following the 1992 general election Conway became the PPS to Michael Forsyth, Minister of State at the Department for Employment.
Steve Whan	In January 2009 he was elected to the Rees Ministry and was appointed as Minister for Emergency Services, Small Business and Rural Affairs.
Ruth Dyson	When the Labour Party won power in the 1999 general election, Dyson was appointed to a number of minor ministerial roles, including Disability Issues and Associate Health and Associate Social Development.
Sylvester Barrett	At the 1973 general election Fianna Fáil lost power to a Fine Gael -- Labour Party coalition government under Liam Cosgrave, and Barrett was appointed to the party's front bench as spokesperson on Transport and Power.
Reg Freeson	He remained on the Labour front bench in opposition, as spokesman on health and social security, but was demoted by Michael Foot in 1981.
Melissa Parke	In February 2013 Parke was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health, Homelessness and Social Housing.
Maria Eagle	On 8 October 2010, Eagle was announced as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Ed Miliband's new shadow cabinet.
Wong Kan Seng	Wong was appointed the Acting Minister for Community Development in 1986.
Vic Schroeder	Finally, on September 21, 1987, he was given the additional portfolio of Attorney General.
Peter MacKay	On August 14, 2007, Stephen Harper shuffled MacKay from Foreign Affairs to Defence, replacing Gordon O'Connor.
David Triesman, Baron Triesman	In the reshuffle of 29 June 2007, he was given the new post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Greg Rickford	Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Rickford to become Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages on August 30, 2010.
Ron Davies (Welsh politician)	In October 1992 he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Wales by John Smith.
Ethel Sylvia Wilson	Wilson was appointed to the provincial cabinet on November 30, 1962 as a Minister without portfolio by Premier Ernest Manning.
Greg Thompson	On February 6, 2006, he was appointed Minister of Veterans Affairs in Stephen Harper's Cabinet.
Robert Flello	He was appointed as a shadow junior minister for Justice in October 2010.
Miche?l Martin	In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2000, Martin was appointed Minister for Health and Children.
Liam Cunningham (politician)	In the resulting reshuffle Cunningham was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government on 9 May 1970.
Brian Peckford	In 1973 he was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to Premier Frank Moores and the following year he was sworn into cabinet as the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.