The Viceroy, finding the situation too stressful, left office in a huff.

Huerta soon afterwards left office and gave his government to Carranza.

Imagine the chaos if everyone who knows how this city works left office on the same day.

Paulding left office with the change of administrations in March 1841, returned to literary pursuits and took up agriculture.

Some 355 of the chiefs of the world's 2,500 largest companies - that's 14 percent - left office last year.

These 15 usually left office only when they had an early death or they removed from town.

A fifth resigned, and the sixth left office after the governing system was changed from a commission to a mayor and council.

One left office on January 20, 1989.

Alabama governors at the time could not serve consecutive terms so Sparks left office without seeking reelection.

The request was granted after el-Rufai left office in May 2007.