This was the first transfer of power from one constitutional, elected president to another since 1948, and the first time it happened democratically since 1932.
He served the party as the last elected president of Sylhet BNP, leading for more than twelve years from 1993.
Riccardo Zanella (27 June 1875 - 30 March 1959) was the only elected president of the short lived Free State of Fiume.
Wilson became the only elected president from the Democratic Party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two Democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932.
Five years after independence, Mobutu toppled Congo's only elected president in a coup and instituted a home-grown version of Leopold's rapacity.
Having officially lost to incumbent Joseph Kabila, Tshisekedi nevertheless declared himself the "elected president" of Congo.
The country's last elected president, Alberto K. Fujimori, is another example.
The last elected president, Marty Mankamyer, whom Martin replaced, resigned, in part, over a conflict of interest involving real estate dealings with Lloyd Ward, then the chief executive.
And there is no elected president.
Local businessman, Henry J. Heinz was the last elected president of the society.