The exiled Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria returned after the fall of the USSR and got elected as Prime Minister.
Gerald Ford was the only to have served as both U.S. President and Vice President without being elected to either position.
In 1954, a CIA operation overthrew a democratically elected government in Guatemala for the benefit of an American fruit company.
When George Washington was elected president, no one knew what to call him. No other nation had ever elected a president.
Hitler himself was never elected by the people. He lost the presidential election but the Nazis formed a coalition that got them enough seats to demand the position of Chancellor for Hitler.
America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a prank, but she won over 60% of the vote.
When George Washington was elected president, no one knew what to call him. No other nation had ever elected a president.
A man named David Rice Atchison was president of the United Sates for one day and didn’t know it. According to a nineteenth-century law, if neither the president nor the vice-president was in office, the president pro tem of the Senate became chief executive. On March 4, 1849, President James Knox Polk’s term had lapsed, and the newly elected Zachary Taylor could not yet be sworn in (it was a Sunday). So for one day Atchison was president. It was not until several months later that Atchison learned of this, as the law was then an obscure one. It has since been changed.