Lieberman became "the first person of the Jewish faith to run for the nation's second-highest office" (Barry Goldwater, who ran for president in 1964, was of "Jewish origin").

The soft-spoken Jatti rose from a humble beginning as a Municipality member to India's second-highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career.

The Vice President of India is the second-highest office in India, after the President.

Mr. Agnew was Vice President from 1969 to 1973 when in an agreement with prosecutors he pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion and resigned from the second-highest office in the land.

For the last year, Mr. Paterson, 45, who represents Harlem and the Upper West Side, has spent considerable time lining political support for his second attempt to gain the city's second-highest elected office.

But, to judge from today's ceremony, the state's second-highest elective office has made a comeback.

Beard announced his candidacy for the state's second-highest constitutional office on June 4, 2007.

But this is the second-highest constitutional office in the state, and with all respect to Mr. Pataki's reported running mate, a novice upstate judge named Mary Donohue, the people deserve a more serious process.

The position of the Prime Minister of Russia became the second-highest ranking public office, and in the event of the president's incapacitation or resignation, the prime minister would become the acting president.

The General Secretaryship was the second-highest office within the party when Hô Chí Minh was Chairman, a post which existed from 1951 to 1969.